Mine And the dawn still comes without you. The day’s airless dark that surrounds me from every side where the paddocks become an endless voyage into nowhere. I walk on, again, the only voice my own murmuring for my knees to break at the earth’s mouth. I am afraid. I drive alone across the freeway, beyond the cars and the thousands of lives carried towards nowhere I am here and you could be anywhere. Robbie Coburn
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