Garrigill to Alston, the slowest leg

17 tops
many drops
lots of highs and lots of lows
twenty one days we travel between us
leading and following
getting ahead and

as the distance grows between us now
we are bound
bound to carry on
this is a passage
to measure the distance
of this companionship
'to come close, to move far away, all in one,
emptiness is the track on which the centred person moves' (Solnit, 2006)
rotating around our worlds, lost in this other
we are tied together
we break each other along with the wind

this is a rejoining
a search for the rejoicing that company brings
in order to move on together

the music catches us up
Robin and his fiddle
provides soundtrack
to squirrels
and we whistle as we walk
in tune
to end in trees woven with string