Two Travellers to a River

2018
 

 




Things might have been different
if they had turned to look at their shadows
embracing and sweating and falling on the pavement
like autumn leaves.


Had she said something to him, it would have been:
The river we are going to cross at the end of this journey passes close to our home.
And had he said something to her, it would have been:
The river we are going to cross at the end of this journey
is our home!