Fishtraps ScaredyCat

I was hyper aware of you

and I didn't know what to do, so I did nothing.

I just mooned about 

that day

when the water glassed off

and you gave me

some chai tea sachets,

lunch,

a potted chili grown from seeds 

carried on the whaling ships from South America in the 1830s,

river stone fishtraps

a picture book of birds

some biscuits in plastic wrappers,

your ear.