Purple sprouting broccoli

Not the best example; the rats agreed.

Busy day, but I suppose helping six people with their work is quite constructive. Also did some other things that have been waiting for my attention for some time, during which I found this:

walking by the waters,
down where an honest river
shakes hands with the sea,
a woman passed around me
in a slow, watchful circle
a if I were a superstition;

or the worst dregs of her imagination,
so when she finally spoke
her words spliced into bars
of an old wheel. A segment of air.
Where do you come from?
'Here' I said. 'Here. These parts.'

In My Country
Jackie Kay