Ali Jane Smith – Next time

on viewing KitKelen -- thinking of Odveig Klyve's Norway winter

I'm offering apology credit

do bad things and don't say sorry yet.

Later you can say, I'm sorry for … whatever

because we will have forgotten by then

once we've walked down the hill

comparing brass notes

and seen that kookaburra.

We used to feed them the fatty ends of lamb chops

when they were not so wildly expensive.

They'd bang the chop end against the verandah rail.

What I'm thinking of is going to look at Blue Poles

or sitting in that armchair on the bookshop's second floor

I'm thinking of eating eggs and drinking coffee. I don't ever

want to sit in a waiting room

listening to breakfast tv audio

ever ever again but some things are not a choice, like I said.

It's probably a dehumidifier, how come I hadn't thought of that.

There won't be a break for a while, but it's nice to think about.

A kookaburra can fly up to a branch and look for food

or, if the belly's full and the babies' fed, mooch.

Did you know you really can see the water from here?