Billie Dee
The View from Lipton Seat
Haputale, Sri Lanka
Arms flung wide in cool mountain air
ribbons of chanted Heart Sutra twine
from an old slope-slung monastery
binding us with this singular moment.
the manicure
of a tea plantation
emerging
from morning mists
wild elephants
About the Author
Billie Dee is the former U.S. National Library Service Poet Laureate. She earned her doctorate at UCI, has won numerous poetry contests, publishes online and off. She lives in the Chihuahuan Desert with her family and a betta fish named Ramon.