fear > adventure

we know not the night sky

having turned our light to pollution

the black velvet is more a musty gray

but we feel safer crouched in our hole

as fear triumphs over adventure

gracious response

a brilliant thought of an author

who has captured and wide, loving

audience for her work

 and then the gathered courage

to reach out to Jane Kirkpatrick

with her own loving story

of mother’s courage growing up

amid annihilating weariness,

ill-treatment and poverty

 the response, far more gracious

than our Susan could have imagined

  ah, the difference between big and small