Austausch Reunion

So - who do you think you are?

"We're having problems
Placing your accent
What's your Herkunft? And your Wherekunft?"
"Bin doch kein Engländer
Stamme aus lrland!"
"If you haven't been a while
You're bound to see the change"
"Plutot francaise ou allemande?"
''There's only two of us who've stayed"

This wandering tribe halts
Yet again
North North West, Latitude 54
For one more Gruppenbild
In front of one more Alma Mater
(That should be looking smaller).

It coalesces, briefly,
For us to exchange
Some Whats and Whys
And Wohers and Wohins
And thus, so doing,
With the lightest of touches on our shoulders
Lets it be known
That there is just a bit more
To the sum of our totals
Than all our Na's and Wenn's

Then it will disperse
Outwards, upwards
Floating intangibly
Wherever, whenever we are
Over place, over time
Calling us back. ..
Calling

lain Mitchell August 2006

Photos - 2006