Caring  

Caring for people is an uncertain

activity, unreliable as the weather,

one single stubborn breeze and you yourself

are in an inhabited area. It is better to

test yourself in tending indoor

plants, carrots, or field salad.

It is easy to care for cats: soft paws

bring them home, given the right

enticement. Any nook is right for them

as long as a mouse is living there.

I myself like, most of all, growing ghosts, little ones,

pocket ones, at the decisive moment they

tug my sleeve, in safety we help

each other guess: what might happen if

inside us suddenly bloomed audacity.