The Domain by Mike Crowl

The citizens of an anonymous small town are proud to announce that the t-shaped domain is finally open to the public again; a lengthy gravel drive to a short square bare grassed area. A cross with the top lopped off. No swings tinkle or squeal. No slides harbour leafy litter. No space for yet-to-be-pegged tents. No view through tangled macrocapra, but dust-encrusted hedge along the edge: a blind grassed and gravelled alley, a dead-end, a cul-de-sac, a trap, but not for the sun.

Domain - a commonly-used bureaucratic name for open public areas in many small towns in New Zealand.

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