Anxious Poets Society
Mouse Trap

sleep will not come
easy, not with you
coiled up in the corner,
pistons ready to fire,
metal straining against metal,
every muscle tensed,
like a horse before
the bell. you sit
in the corner near the crack of the attic door.
that is the place where
we think the mice
come out at night.
no, sleep will not come
easy. i’m scared to think
of myself at last falling asleep
and then being yanked
awake by a deafening
snap.
Grady Trexler is a high school student in Richmond, Virginia.
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