Their Place

So there they were
Living in an out-of-place-place
There to extract from the ground
People who now belonged to nowhere,
Nowhere
Nowhere
But there
There
Not there
But there
You know
Oh there
Oh, they are from there
You are from there
You know, that sort of place, place
There
Their place
They’re place
Them there           In that place           There, there

 

Written to accompany sculptural works exhibition December 2023