Roger, I especially like the last two lines of this. Are you planning to develop it? (It strikes me as fine the way it is.) Candice --- Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > head down, the cat wriggled from the night > her sleek little body tight with cold and dead > leaves > the drone and boom of jets > magnified the chill wind banging the loose vent > I moved from desk to door to night > looking for something I'd lost > > -- > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ > "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather