Sirens ripped the sky
while shattered dreams
rattled into gutters
and mixed with rubber dust,
cigarette butts and cellophane.

Blackened rains
flushed the shards
through catch basins,
sewers, and discharge pipes
onward to the sea.

Gradually the delta sank
into sedimentary rock
that rose and decayed
into tree bearing soils
around a mountain valley.

There, a herdsman
sits in the edge of shade
while cows graze
and he has kirtan
with his echo.