Downstream

mementos. Retracing my
steps I meet a woman and a
man walking a dog. They live
seven miles away but it’s
their first time here. ‘It’s just
one of those things I’ve
always wanted to see,’ says
the woman. The man is
clutching a map and asks,
‘Where is it then?’ I tell him
they are just opposite the
stone that marks the source;
it’s a few hundred metres
away. ‘What?’ he asks, ‘that