On the radio last Friday

Obo playing           stones

        are breaking

     news

           underfoot.




           the rule is




I’m slowly

          in my life

    there is this       girl. I live

                in this               Country

we avoid

all

                                 talk of

                                        precipitation

                   on the shoulder           tangles

           continue                                             unabated
                                                                             hedge

                      not once                          but twice

                                                             and yet            we still

           so           very      still       .       now

the gray      bark

                                            now                      the ticket home.