Cat Snap
The cat sinks slowly into sleep but not
Too deeply. Holding onto surface wit
Enough to settle in its cardboard cot,
A box lid, furred, unfazed, it starts to knit
Together dreams and life until its tail
Stops swaying slightly at its tip because
The cat has entered slumbers that will sail
It into reveries that make its paws
Go twitchtwitchtwitch so fast that you might think
The visions there behind its eyes are more
Like nightmares of a feline kind. Blink,blink,
The eyelids try to wince. An inner door,
Though, opens up a scurrying of mice
That he would love to catch in fang-deep vise.
~ Phillip Whidden
by phillipw | Sep 9, 2021 | CA, DR, SL, TW |