Kandy
I can’t say that I saw the Tooth itself,
but I did see the bedizened elephant that carried it — as important a performer, surely, as Chesterton’s donkey — and heard the clamour and trumpeting of the accompanying throng.
Our balcony was high above the road
along which the procession passed like a turbulent river bearing away an unseen holy relic, bearing elephants, bearing everything away.
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