'golden eyes glowing dull and open'. Haunting stuff, KW. Sorry for your feline loss.
BW
On 25/10/2012, at 8:54 AM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
> MY MOST GRIEVOUS FAULT
> (Pushkin, cat, white and orange, 1992-September 2006)
>
> Only later did I realize I'd failed
> to shut her eyes, and now
> I'd be pursued by her Fury
> (appropriate to her), yowling
> "You forgot me but you won't
> make that mistake again!"
>
> In the presence of Death
> I wanted only to flee, leave her
> prone on a metal table,
> robbed of all sense--except she knew
> I believe in spirits of the Faithful Departed
> just as she did and does
>
> believe in her companion Miles,
> four years dead, the cat she still sees
> not in Elysium or Heaven
> but in her fierce memory,
> in dreams forgiving slights
> even as they live on in her
>
> to hand now to me to recall her
> golden eyes glowing dull and open
> in a fluorescent room,
> no more to say except
> she will not let me rest
> nor would I wish to.
>
> KW
>
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