By the back road into town, a straw man stands stoically in a reaped
field. Vehicles fly past, driven by signs of, "an open-ended unfolding
of connotations."

If a boy with flaming yellow hair, from having flown in Mercury's orbit,
fell from the sky, who would brake to contemplate the significance of
an "Angel flying too close to the ground."?

An emu strides to the fence, bends a long thin neck back and preens
his feathers. A dog barks and wags a clipped tail. A chicken pecks at
the barren ground.