Kindness

Kindness glides about my house.

Dame Kindness, she is so nice!

The blue and red jewels of her rings

In the windows, the

Are filling with smiles.

What is so real as the cry of a child?

A rabbit's cry may be

But it has no soul.

Sugar can cure everything, so Kindness says.

Sugar is a necessary fluid,

Its crystals a little poultice.

O kindness,

Sweetly picking up pieces!

My Japanese silks, desperate butterflies,

May be pinned any minute, anesthetized.

And here you come, with a cup of

Wreathed in steam.

The blood jet is poetry,

There is no stopping it.

You hand me two children, two roses.