Do you look for the place?
Are you in the place?
Do you look for the place?
Are you in the place?
And slow the bobbing
Pebbles are enough
An act pulled back
into the mind
In that fraught
history
Into your collar
to pay your way
in a troublesome land
Who hold up the sky
Everyone’s out –
The deer, the sheep,
the rabbits, the cows …
Scraping
Ticking
Bells
Warning
Engine
Air
Even when you know they’re coming.
The heart worn out.
The final breaths.