Road

The Age

Saturday February 26, 2011

Tim Thorne

We drive where teenage deathsare tattooed onto fencepostsin bright bunches of flowers.The trees that meet and pass usdied many dams ago.Salt-white, their sharpnessesgouge like the English namesat gateways to what we call"properties".Propertieswe prize are resilience,elasticity. Whena trajectory snapsoff, Facebook friends, parentsgo through a grieving process.Stock, water, memory: it isalways about control.Tim Thorne

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