cat haiku (2015)

soft big eyes explore

hard world inexorable

look it up, kitten

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touch mynose my tail

(i told my body what to do)

clean work starts @ home

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bottom of litter

blues top karma plate potluck

squirm toward free nipple

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runts rule bully law

(who are you calling a runt!

back and forth tales sweep

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 cute fang takes nice mice

home to her children waiting

      gastronomical

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whisk sweeps his her story

(the furrier the better)

moon looks down and nods

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underwheel barrow

sheltered brood discovered (oops

sorry, mother cat

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one by one neck haul

children lumber pile safety

confine cat castle

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punctured tin delight

aroma sound saliva

twenty feet running

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i catch my own food

simple rodents. bugs. or tuna.

swipe of stealthy paw

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let  me in i plead

not as dog with scratching paw

waiting doorside hours

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independent, yes

allergic to stroking, no

depend on that (logic

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milk bowladulthood

enough only one sitting

otherwise---flies drawn

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i draw with my tail

accomplishment legend map

"where i been is done"

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our pingpong ball chase

(neverending game of life)

thank goat, walls of time

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sister-brother nest

just leave one nostril open

epiphany air

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mother chews the cord

father prowls barndark quiet

these things, are given.

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wrapped in dishtowel love

take out baby burrito

parent practice good

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purr mechanism 

runs purely (by seeing you

daughters trifecta!

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catch and release game

sharpen our human smile bark

sunshine yawn nap stretch

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litter conflation

no mess, nor pissy sponge sops

sibling, final friend

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sandpaper tongue bath

six down one to go...oh bother

go to where did they

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my head on your haunch

milky waterbed sister

straw built camel back

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father of the field

(mothered subterranean

night? anarchy rule

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no yarnball catnip

please, pull burrs from my fur.

supply pillow, too.

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crossing the road storm

stuck in treetop innocence

same difference, yep

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symbolic proxy

go where we cannot, freedom

mate with life yourself

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curious prowler

atop grandmas china hutch

cat in a bull shop

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in stow away add

inadvertent cat cargo

going gone round trip

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motions of nine lives

cheating death by pursing life

twitching cat dreamnap

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they fought atop fence

cauterwalling "might makes right

roles reversed...it might

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sleeping kneading leg

owner complains of clawhurt

anyway, whose lap?




3-1-15
Portland Oregon
for Mesa