Daily Dose

From Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems, by Tess Gallagher

MR. AND MRS. RAT

behind the cottage, stealing in daylight
from the bird feeder.  Josie
is not amused.  Soon I don't
see them anymore.
Months later I come across
rat poison under
a flower pot and learn
their fate.  From bonanza
to the last gate.