First language

[Dateline: Well 36, Canning Stock Route,
Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia,
11.05am, 6/08/07]By Adam Gibson ©

as the women spoke in language behind me

their words rolled in a lithe burble of

vowels and consonants,

a song of itself of

everyday

conversation,

i was sentimental for

that time before it had even passed

and then it did quickly pass and it was all over.