I can't sleep,
so I wander.
Leave the house,
walk the block.
Looking for distractions.
One night, I found one.
Dead animal,
not a possum,
dog, or cat.
No idea what it was.
Brought it home,
put it on the kitchen table,
careful not to wake the fam.
Had to find out what it was.
I took to the internets.
Three eyes should have been a clue.
Nothing on the net with three eyes
No mammal, insect.
Nothing this size
with extended mandibles
More research
gave me no more.
Who can I call?
This may be a new species.
Then I heard it
Scratching at the door,
the front,
so faint,
you would have missed it.
And a whimper.
This was unlike a dog's whimper.
It had a guttural reverb
like several mouths letting it out
with one breath.
I stood by the door and listened.
Eventually, this whimpering thing
lost patience
and pawed at the door harder.
I heard deep grooves
digging into the wood.
I turned on the porch light
but t was out of site
from the window.
I could only hear it.
And then it started banging into the door,
The house shook.
The thing howled now.
A terrible sound.
Now I knew it had come for the dead thing.
I knew it would bash through the door to get it.
My back door.
I checked, coast clear.
I tossed the dead onto the porch,
slammed the door.
Moments later I could hear the other.
It cried.
Almost human,
like a baby
I lay against the door
listening.
When I woke up,
my kid was watching TV.
I had fallen asleep on the floor.
Kid didn't seem to notice.
I opened the back door.
Nothing.
The dead thing, gone,
a trail of blood slid off the porch.
I followed it into the back yard
where it disappeared under the pines.
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