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this from a book I will not keep, I have it bcs read this page (corner is folded) and therefore purchased it at Powells?


To catch a hedgehog you need to wear
your hedgehog gloves. His belly is
smooth, vulnerable, covered with gray fur--
hold him there with both hands.

Your mom will sigh, your dad will frown
when you return from the woods--
grass in your hair, all over your brown
worn overcoat, and your finger bleeds.

Now you have a silent friend
who drinks his milk from a puppy pan
and trots at night across the wasteland
of hardwood floors over and again.

To bond with a hedgehog you must become
an owl who has sounds for colors.
The winter apartment is warm and calm.
Lights out, the game starts the trotting, the world is yours.


To Catch a Hedgehog p17 [az] Cossacks and Bandits (Salt Modern Poets) - Katia Kapovich [az]

the poems, the book, not especially appealing to me, so give away. had shelved w ~lit, w my Ahsahta galleys, all of wh more appealing. so give away; just keep by noting this one poem. inside front cover pencil scribbled five dollar price ~ from Powells ~ do not remember purchasing or finding or wanting. page 17 lower corner folded. pencil underlined 'Now you have a silent friend who drinks his milk from a puppy pan and trots at night' and squiggle cross out of penult two lines, then short motion line under 'the game starts' and line~gamma~check 'the world is yours.'