Saturday, January 3, 2015


                   A Library Mouse

                                for Eileen Myles


an earnest mouse emerges
from a library wall
quickly four footed

funny to the eye
a mouse begging a blunt hand
for smaller morsels

bewhiskered critics
mice consume literature
seldom understood





copyright © Dick Russell 2015

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