Kyrgyz Guidebook

Primary colours
daubed across your clear air

comfort us with simplicity.

Subtle shades of thought and age

belong with us.

Intricacy unravels
in such light, patterns
moving out to a shout;

those charred mountains

cheered by baubles.

Only your walnut forests -

so very old -
creeping across the flats

remind us that paint fades/
indicate how wrong we are.