Tang Trek

Between two mountains
I'm riding in such comfort
Bactrian camel

This brown dune rises
to touch a blue cloudless sky
my camel plods me

Night shivering down
camel shudders down to knees,
the stars watching me

The courtesan moon
shining slim keeps memory 
at a safe distance

That I am just here
trying and failing to sleep -
my grain of sand life

Am I a…