THE MICE CAME OUT IN THE SUN

and disappeared quickly when they heard footsteps nearing them.
But this one stayed visible for a minute and seemed not afraid.
And this was in Göttingen where we went today by train (one hour travel) on a nostalgic tour. I had mentionned that I had read the book Göttinger Köpfe and part of our trip today was dedicated to visit the places where Edmund Husserl, Helmut Plessner and Lou Andreas Salomé had lived, for some years or longer.
Piet Hein had studied the works of Husserl, Heidegger and Plessner, and although we had been several times in Göttingen, we had always stayed in the center of the town. Today however, we went, after a visit to the Botanischer Garten, to the eastern part of the city, where the enormous villas stood where the professors and industrials at the beginnings of the 20th century lived. We followed the Brüder Grimm Allee to Rohns, where the forest begins. There at the Herzberger Landstrasse we saw the place where once the house of the Andreas-Salomé couple had been and to our surprise the house where Plessner had lived after his return to Germany after World War II was in the process of restoration.
But there we walked a path on a slope and I heard it immediately hundreds of mice were enjoying the sunwarmth, all near their hide places.
We walked back to the center, visited several bookshops, with the intention to buy a book for the lay man/woman, that would give us information of the laws that citizens should know about. To no avail.
At four o'clock we were happy to travel home again, to the silence and quietness again.

My haiku:

Greetings from our garden
We give you brother Mouse
From your cousin there

And the proverb:

To speak like a mouse in a cheese.

1670  in J. Ray, A Collection of English Proverbs.