Back to Thomas Lux tonight, from The Cradle Place. The poem is “The American Fancy Rat and Mouse Association” (p. 18). It can be read here (I noticed at least one typo at a quick glance <sigh>).
This poem is not nearly as exciting to me as “To help the monkey cross the river,” (did I post a link to that a few weeks ago? I think so, but here it is again). It has a similar twisting ending — and I like surprising little twists in poetry — but in the Rat and Mouse poem the metaphor is much closer to the surface. Less to chew on. And I also like the read-out-loud sound of the monkey poem. OK, tonight’s poem was NOT the monkey poem. I shall move on.
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