M7.8

 

 I'm wearing this in solidarity

with the people of Nepal

 who lost loved ones, homes, villages

in the magnitude 7.8 earthquake on Saturday, 25 April.

 

To anyone who asks about this pair of earrings,

I'll tell them they are from Bhaktapur,

  a UNESCO world heritage site.

 

Its residents are among the over 4,000 dead in the country, so far.

Its old buildings, of terracotta and wood, destroyed.

 

One late afternoon, winters ago, I chose this pair of garnet earrings

to remember the town of wood carvers by.

 

This morning, I put these on,

 not for adornment but in sympathy with the Nepali people.

 

~Ema N~

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