a used shoe lace
scrawled on the kitchen tiles
a scribble of lethal potential
a kitten
crouching behind
a fourest of chair legs
twelve seconds
suspicion
head lowers
hind quarters
adjust
pounce
battle of claws
and wiley tangles
multipodal monster
victo—
is that a gnat
or a dust mote
drifting by?
About riverwriter
Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else?
wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/
Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.
