A trip through
the countryside.
Curving red
lines of road through the flat Mekong Plain; sleeping eternal villages, a sign
pointing to cock-fights. A bridge from here to there.
At one point we
stop at a village known for its weaving. Pots of boiling indigo, people passing
in the streets as the dust kicked up by trucks settles on the dusk filled
lives. The land here is constantly at battle with the people: it is either a glaze
of mud during the rainy season – a thing you pull your feet out of as it sucks
you in, or it is a floor of dust ready to fly into your home, nose and mouth at
the slightest whisper.
Earth for these
people is not a green garden with roses and forget-me-nots, it is a struggle.
The hills are a majestic one-ness with the sky; the colours blend and contrast with divinity.
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