A Wild Inhabitation
John Gibbens, 3 June 1982
“... all sevens. Knowing Thomas had saved the day to give me California Sunshine on. The world in the woods was unscaled. We shed our clothes, a pale stripling and a limber one. Purple foxgloves clung like flies’ tongues in the red clay banks. Dun calves grazed the greenleaf in the sun and looked on. My balls were like pink sea-urchins in the cold ... ”