Saturday, March 24, 2012

tribute #324 - drowned-looking mouse (1987)

me, rain-exhilerated –
mousy not so much.

on the doorstep, shivering
as if with the flu.

I got a shoe box, scooped him.
my room's baseboard

rewarmed him to fluffy,
dark-eyes, energetic. healed

Houdini, lifted the lid, slipped
into the cookbooks.

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