Return

Not the trees, not the river that cut
through mud-bloated mountains—

Not the deer that once heralded the cold,
sweet waters with their grazing—

Not the gods that sat, soot-
blackened, in their stone circles—

None of these greeted us at our approach:
only the choked houses cloaked in rain.

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