arrangement of flowers

a child holds a piglet

which slips away

chases it 

and gets the tail

slips away again

 

slippery like a word

at the tip of my tongue

stands, rolls, 

and summersaults, 

falls in the dark

 

What is a word?

the words.

Where do you go?

Come back. 

Let me understand 

you, in a poem,

in flowers.

 

 

the slow canter of a horse

A child dips a spoon 

in the ocean

drop by drop

pours the water

on the sand

 

begins the 10,000 hours

to mastery

she may not think yet

of walking on water

 

It will come

in time.