Mice

Mice tease out the seeds

from grass heads, and they weave

the soft chaff into bedding

(I know because

when we moved lumber

we found a stash)

I don’t know if they camp

or homestead. I don’t know

if we uprooted them

or if they were long gone

I know they have busy hands

and keen noses, and they seek heat

and water, and soft fiber, 

and they get around.

I know they can live without us

but I think they would rather not.

©Wendy Mulhern

June 26, 2019