Photo by author of La Laguna de La Cocha near Pasto, Nariño, Colombia

The Pasto Woman Grants My Turn

In the high cloudy forest
lies the purest Amazon headwater;
a magnificent mountain lake.

Feeling no cold I lay naked in the mud.
It transforms me, and I am no longer
Confined to my old place.

I am releasing myself to the new.
I expand and am drawn into the earth
By the power of this…