More
About the Hat
and when they placed
it on his head
he began to dance
around.
He
went out
in
it
because
it was protection.
Because
it
kept
the bad things
away
from his head.
But
it failed him.
He
went out
and
was stunned to find
the
world
closing
like a fist.
Still,
when he returned
home,
he
took
it off and,
tenderly
almost,
as
if he were blanketing
a child,
he
placed
the
hat near the door.
Gardeners
He
sets one foot down
like
stepping into a
garden.
It
s his home.
Somewhere,
among the fragile
cabbages
and kale,
are
children he birthed
in his
thirties.
He s
a
wishful man. He
s over the
moon
with feelings.
And
a wife! Here she
comes,
walking
the same way he
does,
as if in a garden
of glass.