and right now
a little Tibetan boy tends to his yak.

what is

more alive than this boy,
the fire from his cheeks,
the snow bed mountain behind him.

this yak, this boy,
the grasslands, the highlands,
no less holy with its blue gold bells

than this.

Selected byRaymond Huffman
Image credit:OAF
Nathalie Spaans

Nathalie Spaans lives in Amsterdam and works as a public attendant in a cool museum. In day to day life she finds it hard to convey what's going on. With writing she tries to make sense of it.