Near a patch of woods
a rusting Buick Skylark
cradles a mouse nest.
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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.
Dinner
Autumn afternoon—
a hawk intent on dinner
chooses a grey mouse.
Mouse
Last day of winter—
a mouse peeks out of the shoe
where she keeps her nest.
