#5 Kevin Brophy 'Door'

Today the open door of the house
ushered a pigeon in to the kitchen.
It flattened itself against the window

and accepted being wrapped in a towel
and flung back into the sky where its
mate was circling and cooing.

Later by the still open door
we found a rat filling with ants.
I dug a grave for the rat

at just the place in the garden
where I had released the bird.

The door is still open.
We sit here waiting
in the dusk for our next visitor.