Be careful with men,

because they want just one thing:


your full attention.

It is a bizarre

story, so amazingly --


recognisable!

If it is called a

challenge, a virtue is made --


of necessity.

She is arranging

the flowers, he likes it, then --


she throws them away.

Candlemass, the day
of Mary, the ideal woman
and mother, a sign
for those who then marry
and celebrate their happiness

The evening and morning
are a day together
uncovered, without shame
and without sacrifice that diminishes
their sense of being great

and the evenings and mornings
are a life together
the children grow up
and mark in the year
the days of their parents

with attention, as
a daily effort to be
each other's ideal
attention, the secret
of every relationship

Ice threads are floating,

glittering, out of the void --


emerges matter.

The blind man answers,

politely, all the questions --


not put to him, though.