reminds us both of the fragility of the world we share with them and of the insubstantiality of our own lives: barely there--an "odour", "no more/substantial than the wind we listen for"--they brush us with a fear we recognize and "listen for/through talk-shows and the news/beneath the home/we only half possess".Field Mice
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Field Mice
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