No Rain
That kicked-up
wild garlic hit
was the mist
through which
the walk took them
on that route,
slow
upstream,
and then sloped
above the low cut
of rain-denied river.
Each step was
another distance
which closed
the gap
between them.
On his solitary return,
under the dapple
of sodium,
over hard tarmac,
the true nature
of things
returned.