You've got to watch the water.

Cold dark house

Dry your hair before you hand in your Centrelink form

Say hello

to all the people you know

Walking up and down Sydney rd

Watch the water

Watch the water, puss

Mesmerizing, 

those industrial dryers

Cold white room,

I remember facing the wall

Listening to you tap your feet behind me

Tentative silence

Gone bush

Gone beach 

Gone Sweden

Watch the water drop on the table

Videoed moment

Waiting for just the right pang of curiosity

         to look back

I looked back on her yesterday

and couldn't look away

I'm worried I will get lost

But I'm going to breathe as I watch the water

This moment passes

and knocks against those other moments

You've got to watch the water