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Archive for Rodents

Grimalkin

October 22, 2012 at 5:31 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Buildings, Cats, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Mammals, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Rodents

The old gray barn cat
Sleeps in the sweet scent of hay
Dreaming of slow mice.

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Squirrel

September 14, 2011 at 11:29 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Haiku, Mammals, Poetry, Pseudohaiku, Rodents

Pert gray wriggling nose
Bushy tail a question mark
“Friend or foe or food?”

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Night Sounds

March 22, 2011 at 3:19 pm · Filed under Buildings, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Mammals, Poetry, Rodents and tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

Ghost sounds in the house –
Scratchings, squeakings, scamperings –
Mice between the walls.

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