jalandhar

Amit spent his afternoons daydreaming. He’d look out the window, and wonder what was beyond the haze in his native city of Jalandhar. He’d also fill his afternoons playing with his wooden spinning lattoo, coloring, and on rare occasions, he’d sneak in a game on his older brother’s mobile phone. 

Today, Amit looked out of their second story apartment window and saw something he’d never seen. Swaths of large emerging earth shards spanned before the usually hazy vista. “Brother, what are those?” Amit pointed.

Amit’s brother paused, smiling as they gazed out of the window together. “Those, little brother, are the Himalaya mountains.” 

-m

May 7, 2020

Photo Credit: Michael Wallden