With Birds You're Never Lonely

• "Spoons slam, steam rises"
• "Last week I sat alone on a stump, deep in Zelandia forest"
• "with sun-syrupped Kauri trees and brazen Tui birds"
• "blaring so loudly I had to turn off my hearing aids"
• "I was tuned into a silence that was not an absence"
• "silence collapsed"
• "I wondered what the trees would say about us?"
• "What books would they write if they had to cut us down?"
• "I felt sorry for any grey tree in London"
• "for the family they don't have, the Gods they can't hold"