Tag Archives: feline
Her perfection
Today I made my cat bloom, the small pink petal of her tongue emerging from the soft sepals of her mysterious mouth. Thereby she declared me sun, though my sole virtue is a lap, and not always that. Her virtues are many; let me name equanimity, how patiently she abides my eclipses, my settings. […]
Ever a great rumble
in the heaven of cats teeming with clever but catchable mice, sounding with birdsong to prick sharp velvet ears. The satisfying flesh of captured things; shrimp and fish and chicken and acres of sand yielding softly to fastidious paws. Quilted across the endless ether patches of sun, and all over creation makeshift toys scattered: string […]
Rounded by a sleep
I have been practicing the possibility, testing it with the tongue of my mind. It feels like nettles, stinging and bitter. He is going to die. Giles is an orange kitten, perhaps 10 weeks old; his mom was feral, so his age is an estimate. He and three siblings have lived with me for more […]
Meditatio Ephemera 