Circulation

Mme Dubois opens up her house early on summer

mornings, to invite the ocean breeze for the day.

She then locks in the cool and makes it wait

for her return from market, beach or work.

For her garden house she does the same; the 

new air settles down to await the foreign guest 

who - after hot and dusty travel - finally finds 

his destination and the August day done.

He is surprised by the familiarity of what he

feels when entering the rooms he hired before,

where the comfort of recognition refreshes

what he had somehow stored unknowingly -

like a state of mind that is preserved to touch us 

when we open up or are unshut.