Gosat (고샅) — the lane between the walls

고샅, gosat: the narrow lane in a village, between the stone walls and the mud walls, too tight for anything with wheels.

Not a road. Nothing came down it except people who lived there, which is why everything a village had to say to itself got said in one.

Have you eaten, at the corner. A plate handed over a wall while it was still hot. Knowing how many spoons were in somebody else's house.

When the road was widened it went round the outside. The gosat is still there, and it is still the width of two people who have stopped to talk.