or twice

 or twice

once

my late father told me

how he and doug used to laugh and sing

and how once

when they were working in a church

they saw a poor church mouse

so they feted it with cheese

placed under the huge pulpit bible

propped up with a stick and string

with a long wait

he never said if the mouse entered heaven

but boy did they laugh

book six

 book six

where the fabled child was lost

and found nothing 

that could be put into words where

thereafter bore no resemblance to before

except for an excitement that a 

teller of tales had cause to write 

and we wonder if