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We enter a rock passage.
They show us Buddhist shrines
set in big, high-ceilinged caves
inside the Marble Mountain.
They point out how the light hits
the Buddhas through large holes
in the mountains.
I say that it must have been
quite an engineering feat,
getting those holes over the caves
in such a way that the light would fall
so precisely and prettily
on the Lord Buddha.
One of the tour guides smiles
(Why is everybody in this country
smiling at me all the time?
Have they no memory?)
and says I have it backward.
The holes in the mountain were made
by American bombs dropped
from airplanes.
Every place a bomb created a cave,
the Vietnamese built a shrine.
Take Big Bites
If you do not know
who Linda Ellerbee is,
suffices to say that if there were
a Mt. Rushmore of women
in TV newscasting,
it would include her.
who Linda Ellerbee is,
suffices to say that if there were
a Mt. Rushmore of women
in TV newscasting,
it would include her.
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