[Curator's note: This poem is based on the 250-mile trek of renowned writer and naturalist Peter Matthiessen through the high Himalaya, a spiritual journey he undertook in mourning for his late wife.]
A month of trekking
sausage
crackers
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all gone
sugar
chocolate
tinned cheese
peanut butter
sardines
nearly finished
soon down to
bitter rice
coarse flour
lentils
onions
a few potatoes, without butter
now the common miracles
murmur of friends at evening
clay fires of smudgy juniper
coarse dull food
one thing at a time
Photography credit: "View [of Crystal Mountain] from Shey Gompa, in Upper Dolpo," in the Himalaya, by Donato Cabal.
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