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| Girl with Guitar and Cat. Computer study and painting from photo from National Geographic, issue & photographer unknown. |
Pet Household
The
kittens have grown like wild things,
tripling
their weight in their third month..
When
I feed them, they circle
like
sharks. I wonder if
I
will be cat food by month five,
when
they have grown large
enough
to intimidate tigers.
Tomiko
wears a white vest on
a suit
spotted like a leopard.
He
knows no fear. He stalks
new
dangers through the rooms
With
the confidence of a king, and
Although
he is respectful of Kitana,
the
fifteen-year old Persian queen,
he
leaps like a cheetah upon the dog,
not
caring that neither has any sense,
and
Murphy would squash him if
their
positions reversed.
China,
his sister has more caution, about
what
is known, and too much curiosity
about
plants, electric wires, and curtains.
She
is wiley, and is not easily caught..
I
know I am too old for this…
being
a mother to kittens and pups,
chasing the thunder of velveteen feet.
Poem Copyright © Ruth Zachary.
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