Category Archives: cats

poems about cats

C

Cat was always my “C” letter: when a cat sat, its back was a “C”; but like a cat “C” was ambiguous sometimes hard, sometimes soft: “cease” had the soft “C”; “crease” the hard “C”. Then there was the confusion … Continue reading

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Katisha

When Calypso split into body and soul, I decreed no new cat can take her place; we’ll wait until Circe does the same and that is that. And I stamped my foot and the universe shook. The fall had held … Continue reading

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scaring the cat

I didn’t intend the scare the cat, but I seem to have and that is that. She sits there purring and looking baleful: if I do it again there’ll be a jailful of me, quite unable to scare gray pussies … Continue reading

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