From The quadrupeds of North America, 1851-1854
Courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library
[She’s been out there for a while.]
Because of the aggression found
in male laboratory mice,
female mice are preferred as test subjects.
I guess we have mustard.
In boxing, “a mouse” describes swelling
that nests under the eye. Like the flagrant
orange of a parking ticket. “Muscle,”
from the Latin mus: as if
mice run under our skin. [She was
hyperventilating before she went.]
Like smoke gliding
from a silver vent. I did forty-four.
Living alone exacerbates
aggression in most strains.
The wet shadow
where the sprinkler fell, will fall
tomorrow. [I just remember feeling
what she/is feeling before and
it is the/worst world.]