Amos muses on a distance...

and I went out to yonder gumtree hills to see Old Amos today

went out through the trembling rain, along the black tar ribbon, went out to him

and while we talked Old Amos tinkered with fishing line and such

and he talked of rivers and creeks and lonely up-north beaches

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— Tim Mallon (@PatMalo85776814) December 20, 2020

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and I watched his ironbark hands deftly tie knots, saw how he didn't flinch when the hooks nicked his skin.

and Old Amos looked out to the rainy hills; and his pale eyes squinted as if they had seen something there in the distance, something that only he could discern...

— Tim Mallon (@PatMalo85776814) December 20, 2020