Who Comforts you? Who Shapes your dreams?

Does He?

AGNES SAM

Documentary Drought crackles. The herd is moving on. A mother nudges her calf gently with her trunk. Each time he falls back, crumpling in on his legs like a collapsed paperbag.

My six-year-old and I hold our breaths - against a backdrop of dust and sparse trees. Another tiny death. I notice my son is crying - for a small elephant, for himself.

KATHERINE GALLAGHER