In the watches of the night

IN THE WATCHES OF LAST NIGHT

In the watches of that very last night
small thumps came from the rooftops
as small furry animals, still or hurried for
their own reasons and in their creaturely
right took over the place like an occupation.

It is just as if all our dire concerns that night
were as nothing at all, fourlegs sat and took
their own mean time, or scurried in the quick
of the aged moonlight as if their spectacles
were glazed with light fully needless of news.

-4th Feb 2015 WDK