IMPROVISATION#231
KNOWING NOTHING

knowing nothing
    about
how or why
 this turtle I found
  by the sea
rescue
  became my friend
it must depend
 on how we must feel
  about justice
for animal
or  women or men
but heard  when he was
  in Florida
 to escape the wintry blast
of ice and snow
it was once cast away
from a fisher's shadow
one February day
last year
and I felt in a moment
like Jonah
    heading for Nineveh
 to pray.