15 February 2025
30 April 2025 submitted to To Write a Refuge

generative mouse 1

glimpses of a

meta mouse

it glides

click quick

from one

black box

to another

halloween module

under a substandard moon

which shines on empty stairs

a stare-a-thon

a tablecloth shaken

flying crumbs sing

and

grapefruit explode on purpose before they can be picked

or

you trip over a deflated human in outskirts

slowly a lizard basks thinks flick flick

a queen rinses her crown in a sea of suds

so do you, nine crowns at a time, busy girl

laughter snuffles a curtain of sighs

a mouse for a moustache for a bandido

it wriggles, his white teeth flash at a

bimbo