Bleak gray morning
cold cold rain
Welcome to school, kids
how was your holiday?

Long long day
shivering in the drafts
whispers drift the halls
ruminant rumors of flu

Weariness in the bones
driving, driving home
a leaf rolls across
the gray gray road

-wait.
That’s not a leaf.

Tiny tiny legs
tiny tiny tail
gray gray mouse
infinitely frail

running, running
for all it’s worth
across the gray gray road

after all the traps
I’ve set in my house
I want to cry
for this one small mouse

make it, please make it
to a warm safe place
away from this road
and the cold cold rain

a stab in my heart
for the tiny tiny thing
in this big big world
so full of pain

yet

a teeny tiny spark
on this gray gray day
to keep me skittering on
my homeward way

Field mouse. Vincent Cornelius.

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Happy New Year to all
and may you find joy
every day
in the littlest things
that come your way

Thanks to Two Writing Teachers for for the Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge