Requirements

There*s nothing like a day which started with a list of necessary things to do (which I indeed would have done, gladly), a day which now requires that I stay home with a soft blanket and herbal tea, watching the cat have cat fits.

Some days require

A soft blanket

A cup of herbal tea.

No need to focus

On anything difficult.

Some days it is enough

To watch the dry-pak daffodils

Begin to open,

The cat as he frenzies

From the living room to the kitchen

And back again,

The cat who takes away

Any need on our part

To frenzy,

Only watch the action

From the sidelines

Under the soft blanket

A cup of hot herbal tea,

It warms the hands.

No need to emulate the cat

With

The almost-emergent daffodils

On the living room table.