weeping willows / tender branches crisp with leaves hang and skim the stream / earth-stained clear water / eddying / deep green hair / underwater growth / twisting skin reflecting colour from the sky / stones and fish wriggling / no one in sight / no old artist sketching / he’s over there / see across the stream / against tha hawthorn hedge / yur-hin-natin / what no boy swimming / splash / peltless monkey-otter / poor ol man distracted halfturns an squirts his foot piss-wet / nevermind / is that rain / darker now then colder / wind up urgin leaves ta rustle / this is rain / ol bugger runs an leaps / god tha bones! / landin on tha far side o tha stream / pupil / head above the water / follows fascinated / slowness of tha ol man’ s passage through tha air / ol arms and legs windmillin / crumplin mong reeds and iris leaves / oaf! / we shake our head in disbelief / quixote’s leap / soon together they squat against the trunk within chamber willow cascade o branches / boy quickly up n dancin / yes im still peltless / through could leaves an drippin rain / mud toes / willows weep / willows weep rain / laughin dancin done / skinny mud mess back at old man’s side snug within tha foldin coat / sit out tha rain / across tha stream a watercolour palette floods colour into tha grass / beginnings of a sketch / our willow stream / washes clean / paper buckling / if we were there we’d hear from across tha stream / within tha sound of rain / light an innocent laughter / leave them there you bastards / leave them alone / sky clears