Quote from admin on October 20, 2023, 2:30 pm

Bag of Mice

(from Some Ether)

by Nick Flynn

 

I dreamt your suicide note

was scrawled in pencil on a brown paperbag,

& in the bag were six baby mice. The bag

opened into darkness,

smoldering

from the top down. The mice,

huddled at the bottom, scurried the bag

across a shorn field. I stood over it

& as the burning reached each carbon letter

of what you’d written

your voice released into the night

like a song, & the mice

grew wilder.