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Pastimes : The Literary Sauna (or Tomes in Towels)
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To: Rambi who wrote (370)8/26/2001 2:20:18 PM
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I am printing it out as i type, and since you're speaking of a mouse, i found this poem that i like so much while out walking on my steroid-revivified Baker's cyst knee. I wouldn't have thought of posting it, except that you did mention mouse and this is a literary sauna. It's by Richard Eberhart.

"Protection"

Opening a drawer
After winter, up stairs,
I found a field mouse
In a nest
With inch-long babies.

Not to disturb them
I descended,
Sat in a chair
Contemplating
Fragility,

Astounded in silence.
The mother field mouse
Fell down steps
Clutching an infant
In her mouth.

Cautiously moving to the kitchen
She deposited her kind
In a new place
Underneath
The kitchen sink.

How could she
Leap us the stairs,
Fall down each step
Many times,
Bringing no harm?

I long sitting
Watched the still drama.
O white-footed mouse,
Small mother,
How I praised you.
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