“Outside night has descended upon the high plateau. Beyond the adobe walls of our yard, the thirteen black-haired yaks huddle in the pen, and their warm bright breath exudes from their dark shaggy bodies and fumes from their nostrils in the cold bare moonlight.”
So begins “The Kora-Walkers of the High Plateau,” a poem out of Kham, sung by Lobsang the yak-herd and bard of Manigango and inspired by Joseph’s travels in Tibet. The poem is excerpted from the story”Lobsang and the Snow Lioness,” which is also live at The Land West of Long Mountain Project.