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Grief Is Not Like the Squirrel in My Garden

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on June 6, 2024| 10 Comments »


 
 
that’s been eating all my pansies,
eating them to the roots
so that nothing of beauty remains.
 
We were able to lure the squirrel
with sunflower seeds and peanut butter
and trap it in a cage and take it far away.
 
Grief is more like the mice that eat the lure,
then slip through the cage, though the holes
are tiny, the door shut tight.
 
Grief stays. It takes what I offer and escapes.
But it hasn’t devoured all that is beautiful.
See how the pansies are blooming.
 
Like the mice, grief makes a nest
in my garden. We live here together.
I’ve put away the cage.

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Mus Musculis

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on March 16, 2021| 10 Comments »


 
 
Today fear is a mouse
that scuttles between thoughts
and feeds on whatever it finds—
nibbles on my certainties,
gnaws the coating off my circuitries,
and pulls the stuffing
out of each moment.
Those are its droppings
in the hallways
of my mind.
I thought it was worse
when fear was a tiger,
a badger, a wolverine,
but the mouse of fear
finds its way into everything,
makes nests inside my minutes,
discovers passages into my inner walls,
then scratches against them at night.
It never goes near the traps I’ve set,
no, it scampers around them,
its soft feet pattering,
its small dark eyes
noting everywhere I go.
 
 

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