Showing posts with label Midnight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Midnight. Show all posts

Monday, February 3, 2025

Owl and Mouse

 

Photo © Jennifer Wagner

My eyes are

little lanterns

for you, owl.

 

Flutter by,

incandescent,

like a dream.

 

Swoop wild,

speak golden, giddy

enchantment—

 

be not

absent your

darker charms.

 

Stir that deep cello

in me—

that storm of music

 

reverberating

whenever

you brush by—

 

my pulse quick,

a mouse

to pounce—

 

swoop wild, swoop

to me,

your prey.

 

 

© 2025 Jennifer Wagner

 

 

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Monday, October 30, 2023

(Waking Up) from the Nightmare

 

A dozen plump oranges were hanging from the tree.

A dozen plump spiders had encircled each one

with a dozen white webs.

 

Kitty tried to bat one away

but it just crawled toward the couch

and back again.

 

You sprayed them with water

but the fruit couldn’t be saved.

Except by me waking up.

 

Which I did,

and killed them

the only way I know how.

 

© 2023 Jennifer Wagner