DAN MCKIBBEN sunny window bay in the kitchen where the rocker sits the women coming and going talking over his condition just inside the doorway his first daughter now old standing with this thing by her skirts another great-grandchild the child is staring never mind no never mind clear to view across the little swale of pasture sits the churchyard with its herd of stones there is room for more you can hear the singing already the load gets lifted more hard work done and another land swap