'Do you know how much you need? ' br asked Keoki at the hardware store, br but suddenly, it was no longer about rope br br for hanging clothes under tropical sun br because his question brought back that day. br br 'Hey, ' he said, but I was off and thinking, br already five times zones east br and thirty years from where now I stand: br br I'm gazing at a gravestone I glimpsed once br walking in a Vermont cemetery with my dog- br br a flat slab of cut gray marble set in the grass, br just a name, two dates, a life br the length of a hyphen, and a single word: br br 'Enough.