In praise of the rituals of others.

Vol 29 No 22 03-Nov-2019 © 2019 www.eurekastreet.com.au Page 50 of 69 In praise of the rituals of others ARTS AND CULTURE Jane Williams Selected poems In praise of the rituals of others Today I frosted the kitchen window because before it finds the mountain through the glass door of the balcony it must pass through our shared hallway and the new neighbors are moving in just as we'd started to befriend the old ones. Thank God for the shift worker laundering at 3am, the self-talker shooing imaginary unwanted guests with nothing more than the thinning straw of a broom. Vol 29 No 22 03-Nov-2019 © 2019 www.eurekastreet.com.au Page 51 of 69 And yes even the drum-beating banjo-twanging wannabe musicians. [Extracted from the article]