Between Flowers and Sills

The Cats Will Know

   (excerpt)   with thanks to  

     Author  CESARE PAVESE

Rain will fall again
on your smooth pavement,
a light rain like
a breath or a step.
The breeze and the dawn
will flourish again
when you return,
as if beneath your step.
Between flowers and sills
the cats will know…..

 

Red Car Renaissance

 

  We walked into the parking lot

after 10 o’clock mass on Sunday.
A car’s blur crossed our path
so close I felt the heat of the sun
in the hot wind off its fender.
They only meant to scare us.
I felt then what my prayers might have been.
  From: “Little Red Tangrams’
 by Dara Wier