081413 #worm Past a plastic kiddie pool gone the colour of the sea from disuse, in the next backyard over, two little girls kneel in front of a tidy yet rowdy patch of brown-eyed susans. The yellow petals throw the sun all over everything, including the fearless turquoise of the wall behind the flower bed. One of the girls' dolls is missing a head. The only thing unusual about their ingenuous play is that only one girl ever speaks, though both girls' dolls bob their bodies in animated conversation. The doll who talks out loud always seems to know what the doll who never speaks is really saying. Him and Me walk on.