Khong Chiam, Thailand
The ferry crossing.
Today the air is clear
and dry.  A very bright, white, half moon
hangs in the blue, early morning sky.  A
cream coloured cow licks the turn signal on a motorcycle.  Taste test. 
Three women squatting on their haunches on the river bank.  Subdued voices.  River level dropped down two and a half
metres since the end of the rains.  A tan
coloured cow chews on a rusty piece of sheet metal.  A bull saunters down the concrete ramp,
stands still, pisses.  A dugout river
canoe with a motor putters around the bend and chugs its way upstream.  There are four people in the canoe. 
Someone in a
red shirt is bailing.
 
 
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