SHADOW PLAY: On a hun lakorn lek performance stenciled silhouettes illuminate thin cotton screens as characters with grotesque features perform scripted puppetry nothing seems real in this dance of shadows where heroes and villains compete only the faint glimmer of stars above the illuminated fabrics suggest there are stages within stages and performances never seen ===================================================================================== from _Pan-Asian Pulses: Poetry, Art, and Dialogs about Asia_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: A poem about hun lakorn lek puppetry hinting at how we are all puppets on a larger stage. KEYWORDS: hun lakorn lek, political puppetry, marionette scripting, social string theory, Thai moppets Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 2004 in Leh, India ≜ Finished: 2017 in Tokyo, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/BambooGroves/rama.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/BambooGroves/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/BambooGroves/showers.htm