Apr
2008
02

An Elegy for my boots

By Margaret

A fifty word saga

Over Welsh mountains in rain and wind, across the deserts of West Africa in baking sun, my trusty companions protected me.  Their soles finally departed on a bomb strewn hillside in Laos.  Regretfully I laid them to rest not in a stone jar but in a plastic bin in Phonsovan.

Categories : Journal, Laos, countries

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