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figcaption></figure><p id="6215"><i>Room 244, Indian and Southeast Asian Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Art</i></p><p id="e9de">Goddess Ganga, forever combing Shiva’s hair diaphanous dress soaked with holy water bangles jangling in the sticky breeze</p><p id="946b">Curled catlike in a grotto she watches life roll by: women washing linens, children splashing at play</p><p id="235c">Here you are now this mausoleum of living ghosts Disarmed, headless, hips frozen a rictus of dance</p><p id="2ea

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e">Far away from your riverbank… I too feel out of place here.</p><p id="3fe2">They could have given you a fountain something with which to wet your feet something with which to sympathize</p><p id="e3a0">something more similar to home</p><figure id="a10d"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*3fdBGitODNjZuwW4Y4AWpg.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo by the <a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1966.119">Cleveland Museum of Art</a></figcaption></figure></article></body>

The Beholder

Communing with a queen

Photo by Mike Kotsch on Unsplash

Room 244, Indian and Southeast Asian Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Art

Goddess Ganga, forever combing Shiva’s hair diaphanous dress soaked with holy water bangles jangling in the sticky breeze

Curled catlike in a grotto she watches life roll by: women washing linens, children splashing at play

Here you are now this mausoleum of living ghosts Disarmed, headless, hips frozen a rictus of dance

Far away from your riverbank… I too feel out of place here.

They could have given you a fountain something with which to wet your feet something with which to sympathize

something more similar to home

Photo by the Cleveland Museum of Art
Poetry
Ganga
Hinduism
Museums
Ganges River
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