about the record

"And so they sat, watching the waves break.
He picked up green pebbles and threw them into the sea,
she played with her jade earrings.
That night in bed, she felt one missing.
She pictured it lying in the sea,
she felt relief:
the best place to hide a leaf is in a tree."

“a remoteness from the centre” from “the light user scheme”
poems by Richard Skinner, Smokestack Books 2013.