2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
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Stupa<br />
by Barbara Robidoux<br />
On the south side, the poor side, the immigrant laden, gangster ridden,<br />
bean burrito and Tres XXX's riddled side of an otherwise fancy art<br />
mecca in the west, a small group of Tibetan Buddhists built a Stupa. It is<br />
a golden pearl in a desert of empty pocketed sand. Trailer homes surround<br />
it. A McDonald's lies at the feet of the Buddha. Amidst the<br />
chaos of a violent and uncomfortable world, the Stupa shines. Tattered<br />
red and yellow prayer flags hang from an old cottonwood tree badly in<br />
need of pruning. The flags appear to be growing from the tree. Leaves of<br />
tree and flags are one. Brilliant white Stupa walls glow against a gray<br />
winter sky. In the east a full moon rises out of the Sangres as the sun lays<br />
down in the Jemez.<br />
moon shines on golden Stupa<br />
chanting fills night air<br />
om mani padme hung.<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Fe</strong> Literary Review 41