Feeling At Home

Some of the warmth of home is knowledge,

the notion, when you are safe and sound,

that you know why: because of your family.

They know something, and you do too,

if only by association— the way to act

that profits and protects.

You know this, not only as studied habit

that got the bunch of you where you are,

but as something easy, requiring only 

acting like them, and you already do.

it’s the business of being and seeing 

yourself mirrored and multiplied.