Moonlight serenade—
an owl swoops down from the oak
to embrace a mouse.
In the melon field
a mouse nibbles one choice fruit:
sweet and warm and fat.
Near a patch of woods
a rusting Buick Skylark
cradles a mouse nest.
The homeless woman,
shifting in her cardboard box,
startles a field mouse.
Shelter
The year’s second day—
in a castoff running shoe
a mouse takes shelter.
Cloudburst
Halloween cloudburst—
a field mouse burrows down deep
in the dead man’s shoe.
Nest
A field mouse mother
unravels my old sweater
to line her new nest.
