temptation
Whenever he finds a spider in the house
he leaves it alone but sometimes one shows up
in the bedroom and his wife says “either
that spider goes or I do” and at times he’s tempted
to leave the damn thing right where she found it.
Michael Estabrook:
Retired now working around the yard
and writing more poems or trying to anyhow.
Noticed 2 Cooper’s hawks staked out in our yard
or above it I should say
explains the disappearing chipmunks.