While We're Posting Cat (and Dog) Poems, Here's One of Mine

[nolabear]

It's really a love poem, but what cat poem isn't"


In a High Window

In a high window across from my window,
a little cat sits, looking down,
an ordinary little cat with a tabby saddle on her back,
white paws tucked beneath her chest.
Eyes and ears intent,
she watches the buses come and go, follows
the cars and the people, and the dogs out for twilit walks.
She watches the crows commute out of their neighborhoods,
and the house sparrows shop in the trees.
Now and then she rises as if to leap,
as if to catch one of these marvels
and bat it across the kitchen floor,
remade into a thing she, captive, understands.
At my window, sipping my tea,
I dream of cool Japanese mountains
and cinnamon groves, and sugar cane, and you.