The Vedanta
Temple's bell is hollow: no clapper.
Round wooden posts
support the temple's roof.
inside, rows
of chairs, each with empty cushion.
Sunlight falls across
a
portrait of
an Indian saint
hanging
alone behind a locked iron fence.
Wondering
if the temple's grounds had survived
the fire, I stroll outside, where a No Trespassing
sign
guards a narrow path.