It's not puppy love

[Honeylioness]

IT’S NOT PUPPY LOVE


I am a lover of cats,
And I have had many affairs.

I have shamelessly given my heart
To calicos and Siamese
And those of mysterious ancestry ///

Street-wise Toms and Skttery kittens
Abandoned in parking lots.

Clowns and aristocrats, lovers and fighters,
Each with a niche in my heart.

Tigger, with love-war-torn ears;
Velvet, in midnight-soft fur;
Two-Ton, Nikki and Sheba,
Garfield, who slept on the microwave and died on my birthday.

Now it is Rum-Tum and Grizzy, tumbling like
Weeds on the floor, making up cat-tricks
To torment the dog.




~ Rebecca Dawson
May 1988