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Mouse, Little Mouse Dan Morris
How it got in I don’t know. But now it’s lying next to my bed beside my phone. I would like to think that it’s sleeping. Through the paper towel, I can feel it’s still soft, freshly gone, as I lay it on the counter to get a closer look. Thought, perhaps, it was a deer mouse Peromyscus maniculatus. I knew them, summers ago, as a student of Zoology. But it’s too grey and I don’t think deer mice take to the indoors. Peterson Field Guide says “house mouse,” Mus musculus, That’s Latin for mouse, little mouse. Habitat: occasionally found in fields, but usually in buildings. And like maniculatus it has a white belly. There’s no mammae so I can call it he and be accurate. I wouldn’t mind sharing my space with this little guy. Why did he choose next to my phone to expire, out in the open? Perhaps he just didn’t want to go alone. |
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