“When Mousehood Was In Flower” by Mary Jo Thompson

A poem by alum Mary Jo Thompson (poetry, ’09) appears at Drunken Boat:

1.  In black and white
—there was no color—she taught me
that mischief was the work of cats
and oilcans. My grandmother warned that evil
came in kinds and sizes. Pint-sized oilcans
squawked like crows and squirted when they saw me.

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