Anna Couani #158 the village

that local feeling you get walking locally

in the streets away from the highways

the winter sunshine

the dappled light

from the trees that lost their leaves

locals, all those types

people who walk around

the familiar beggars

who make jokes as you pass

“I’ll give you a kiss for a dollar”

city of villages

in the words of the Lady Mayoress

yes, it is like that

so different from when you spend your life commuting

to places far away where you feel foreign

work with people who are from far away

get that contact rootlessness

turn into the building

get into the studio

then what next, what next

draw up a list

and work through it