Photo Essay

at the foot of the Mountain

DYUTIMAN MUKHOPADHYAY PHOTOGRAPHY

 
 

A butterfly came to die

between two stones

at the foot of the Mountain

the mountain shed shadows

over it

to cover the secret of

death.

— a poem by Arab American poet Etel Adnan.

(from her book The Spring Flowers Own, 1990).

Photograph by Dyutiman Mukhopadhyay; August 2009; Madhya Pradesh, India.