#155 Kevin Brophy 'A mouse like this'

#155 ‘A mouse like this’

We chase the night mouse round the bedroom floor.

The mouse is never where it was.

Green pellets scattered in every room, at every door.

We teach the mouse its last chaotic lesson

as it shows us how its other mind-mouse finds

its way in and further in than we ever dreamed,

     its tail disappearing beyond our reach, like nausea.