Sitting in the bathroom, clipboard and paper balanced on my knees, penning paying lines, knuckle-brushing my silky cat, who’s terrified by my construction-shuddered apartment, outside parking lot shattered, asphalted by metallic-rattle equipment and daylong Spanish – worried and broke, I’m still better, stronger than I was in my earlier, crappier years, which you say define me.
still, I ask
my cold quake cat:
who’s soothing who?
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I wrote this for my forthcoming 2012 poetry anthology, Almost there: poems. It's scheduled for autumn 2012 publication.
No heater is a companion/contrast piece to the poems No air conditioning and three days, which were published in my most recent anthology, Behind the wheel: select poems (also available in e-book form at Lulu.com).
I posted this haibun for The Mag, #99. (Photo and prompt provided by Tess Kinkaid - thanks, Tess!)
No heater was also posted for Mostly Fiction Mondays, created by Stranger and Me, whose theme for tomorrow is "Best Friends".
If you have the time, talent and are so inclined, come play with us in these writing prompts! =)
7 comments:
You've created a vivid atmosphere here... and I think it works both ways with the cat.
i would like to think our cats and us share a similar responsibility in that...though mine was hogging the bed last night...smiles.
Damn it, Steve, you're good. So good, still. Feel my envy yet? Envy and admiration.
I'm not sure I recall any "crappier years" your poetry has always and still hurts good.
Thanks for playing along with me and Me. I need the push to keep me on track after some months of being lost in incoherent noise.
Superb - so much said with so few words. The language is wonderful.
Those fuzzy friends can certainly be the best of companions on any day, no matter the good, bad or hideous
our relationship with our animals is quite complex
days of cohan
Nice write Steve...love the end question...
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