Category Archives: cats

poems about cats

listening

Old gray cat calls in the hall deaf dancer waiting for an answer. Fruitless I coo endearment near her: she cannot hear me. Wauls for her god long gone.

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foxes

slender, coltish, playful red and white like little collies a pair in the woods on the island have mated and now there are five One of our cats is older, wilier but the other is a trusting friendly paw-shaker who … Continue reading

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assistant

Our cat assistant is learning how to knit perhaps “teaching herself” is more accurate as we have no desire to encourage this perling aspiration for our high-strung cat I used to wonder why that string puzzle was “cat’s cradle” when … Continue reading

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