Tag: cats

• Heresy Ball on the Bathroom Rug

  June 16th, 2020

  Look askance, all you
  want, at a people who
  draped their cats as
  queens, in gold and lapis
  and jasper and jade,

  or shaved their eyebrows
  in lamenting grief when
  their whiskered royals
  sauntered through Duat to
  bask beneath Ra’s passing,

  but have you, a lap
  among a sea of laps, ever
  been so richly blessed by
  an ambivalent god brushing
  against your shins?

• Crazy Cat Lady

  January 15th, 2018

  I cradled him, fresh from a morning
  surveying his kingdom, into my face;

  smelled winter beneath his fur,
  flowerbeds behind his collar.

  Wondered at those who collect these
  haughty envoys, risking the ire

  of municipal codes and threadbare
  trope of crippling loneliness

  to surround themselves with smells of
  life, now, beyond their grasp.