and re-wakens in me
that desire to travel along
the Silk Road
From terracotta armies
to the cave of 1000 Buddhas
from desert oases to the
greatest Sunday market in the world
through the Karakorum
and into beautiful ancient cities
whose names alone are so evocative
Khiva, Bukhara, Samarkand.
Once I thought the only way
to start in the Hunza valley
go over the Karakorum passes
to Kashgar's Sunday market
That road has long been warblocked
and so I no longer dreamed.
But the Silk Road was never
one sole route and so....?
LMC14Apr2013
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