For My Pregnant Cat Grendel Who's Giving Love Another Chance Without a Single Thought
Vos saluo naturos et tibi Tabby cano. Remember
Your long line of dead: stillborn, broken-necked, infected, and
Run over — woeful family tree — the last touched by a hand
Only once while he was dying on a warm day last November.
Your long line of dead: stillborn, broken-necked, infected, and
Run over — woeful family tree — the last touched by a hand
Only once while he was dying on a warm day last November.
Yet you’ve outside in the yard another,
Stubborn child to match her stubborn mother,
Last descendant, sharp and shy like you,
Runty, determined, and by God she’s pregnant too.
Stubborn child to match her stubborn mother,
Last descendant, sharp and shy like you,
Runty, determined, and by God she’s pregnant too.