15     Rodent Hotel

 

Chipmunks abound darting

Under the porch and into

The old maple’s oval portal

 

Rabbits dig below the

Garden fence at night

Filling themselves well

 

Woodchuck twins munch

Grasses near my door

Skittish when Millie barks

 

I know there’s mice

That scamper in the walls

Ancestors here before my time

 

Decades we lived in peace

Despite folks often warning

They will come to no good