Overlap

Thank you, Kelly Flanagan, for naming that, for us, for the world, there is significant overlap between the things of this world, even as we go about creating false boundaries.

I admit

I would prefer everything

With clean, clear

Boundaries.

Good versus bad

Light versus dark

Life versus death.

Our cat caught a mouse

Last night,

Worried it to death.

We woke to a dead mouse

On the bathroom floor.

It is better

Than a dead mouse

On the pillow.

The cat had done

What she is meant

To do.

We still mourn

The mouse,

Now under

The front bushes.

With cats and mice

There are clean, clear

Boundaries.

With us

Well

We mourn

The mouse

Under\

The front bushes.