Fly then\u2026
\nbut you don\u2019t fly, little one\u2026
\nlittle brown one\u2026
\nlittle brownie in my house.<\/p>\n
Go count the Safeway clearance grains.
\nscattered yesterday
\nto keep you away.<\/p>\n
No more crushing of paper
\nor pounding my drum.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t scurry more
\nacross this fake wood floor.<\/p>\n
I came in from the rain!<\/em><\/p>\n They made it rain too many times a day Tried to help, I did!<\/em><\/p>\n Not my fault!<\/em><\/p>\n Rain, rain! Every day! Rain! My tree, you see, you see, is dying You see the death of it! I taught the snake a new lesson, You found me safe, and Your bumps in the night, So, go, dear Brownie Banshee\u2026 Fly then\u2026 but you don\u2019t fly, little one\u2026 little brown one\u2026 little brownie in my house. Go count the Safeway clearance grains. scattered yesterday to keep you away. No more crushing of paper or pounding my drum. Don\u2019t scurry more across this fake wood floor….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4258,536,4257,4133,1395],"class_list":["post-90429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-brownie","tag-magic","tag-otherworldly","tag-poetry-prompt-1","tag-spirits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104495,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90429\/revisions\/104495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwith their hoses with noses
\nspewing nasty water\u2026
\nPlus the Mother\u2019s rain that night
\nI crushed your big paper
\nbetween the sofas;
\nand rattled dirty dishes.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWet, wet, wet! All the time, wet!
\nMy grass, mushy with sponge rotted roots!<\/em><\/p>\n
\nfrom the snot of that dead
\nrubber snake and its metal noses!<\/em><\/p>\n
\nLeaves, bare branches, lichen, and moss!
\nBut one! Just one pink flower
\nthis gale season!
\nA sole fallen blossom.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nlittle brown one.
\nThe grass will find root.
\nAnd your tree will revive.<\/p>\n
\nthought you might help;
\nbut I, knowing your type,
\nand knowing few others of my kind
\nare so kindly toward yours,
\nneed a quieter home when my guests arrive.<\/p>\n
\nbad odors when you rage,
\nodd mews and music,
\nmight scare them away.<\/p>\n
\nlittle one who came
\njust to escape the rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"