Brendan Slater

Setting

I've an hour's walk everyday in my plan made up by the detox staff. I'm following it pretty well, cooking, cleaning, showering, washing, household chores are all done. Fresh air heightens my senses, brightens colours of '60s shop signs running down the high street. At its end there's a cycle path leading up to the flatland–I turn a corner.

the hawk hovers–-
a patchwork of lilies
in the drainage ditch