This poem is taken from PN Review 36, Volume 10 Number 4, March - April 1984.

Travelling I, II

Dick Davis

1 Pastoral

Wild lavender and mint;
                    the mind's bemused
Sheep browse - cropping the serious anecdote,
Eschewing the dust of small-talk.
                                Nearby,

Reason is a small boy who throws stones, sends
His yapping dog, to guide the errant flock.
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