Silent Treatment
Edging between Jeanine
and the wall
Halligan jumped out the window--
alright, it wasn't far,
ours is only a one story house.
Still, what could make her
     make such a leap into a black night
         without waiting to be let out the door?
The quest,
 it turned out later,
was possum stew...
or perhaps a field mouse
pick me up.
Whatever it was,
     when she returned
Halligan said not a word about it.