“Why are you so interested in this?”
Asks a Chinese man
After I explain to him my desire
To slip under the ropes
And see the Gandharan sculpture,
From the 2nd Century AD:
Likely the first iconographic
Representations of the Buddha,
Which also hint
At the growing interconnectedness
Of the 2nd century world,
And also,
The universality of
These sculptures’ mudra, their hand gestures.
“You’re so young. And this is so random,”
He comments,
Filling the silence
Prompted by his first remark.
“Well, why is anyone interested in anything?”
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