In the Country

Why Had He come Here? For peace? Solace? He began To realize there wasn't the Perfect quiet around that he would have expected— Out in the country. Plenty of disturbances here and there, a shaking of the dry Autumn leaves that wasn't wind, the racket—some unseen birds chastising him. You thought you'd enter a fresh block of air. Instead, what did you get? What are you doing here? where are you going? A sense of being watched by things—things you Did not know about. Of being a disturbance. Life— Around—coming to some conclu- Sion about you from Vantage points You could Not See.