Mayalu Press

faults / pressures

In school
they taught us
about tectonics and
even though I forgot most
things I never forgot about tectonics.
The way they push off each other, up,
mountain-building, or bury each other
into lava. In my eight-year-
old imagination, this
happens
all at once,
and still, I can’t imagine being
in contact for that long.
My mother
says that hugs need to            last      twenty
seconds to                   have their full effect.
When you hugged me
for a full twenty
seconds, I felt
like maybe I could
understand what kept
the tectonics together
for long enough
to change
the topography
of the earth.

— KMN

~ཨེ་ཀོ་རོ་ཀན་ཆ་ཏ་མང་།