The Eclipse: On the Nepalese Civil War (1996-2006)

A group of children,
We were grazing cattle
by the riverside.

The sound of birds
and crystal streams
The dance of termites
and leaves
like Snow White --
It was our Disneyland.

Cattle grazed,
grating the earth with their hooves,
blowing dust into the Milky sky.

The Eclipse! The Eclipse!
The war began.

Children vanished.
Empty riverside,
dragonflies
fairies—
everything vanished --
Our sweet Disneyland!

The umbra stretched
from east to west.
Nepal, incinerated!