Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Captured

No matter how long between trips to the cabin, we always find dead bugs and/or mice on the premises. This oldie says it all.


Captured


A spider belly-up in the water pitcher.

A horsefly garroted in a skylight web. 

A chipmunk snookered by a mousetrap

                guarding the garage.

A smattering of Asian beetles like currents

                   dotting the floor.

Two hornets commiserating after attempts

             to dissolve a pane of glass.


But a crush of frogs caught "in flagrante delicto"

           croak delight in a springtime rite.


           The workaday carnage of critters

        and the blues of daily news disappear.



Marilyn Aschoff Mellor

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