Susan King

All's Right with the World

What draws us here week after week to roam these hills? Another mate – who doesn't get the outdoors thing – is always bugging us about it. So today we are mulling things over. Not given to talking much, we just come out with the obvious – fresh air, company, exercise, the views.

"And out here" someone says in the end "everything is as it should be . . ."

leeward
of a crumbling wall
the bodies of lambs