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.
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