Cat Sitting in Iowa City
Before leaving me in charge of her clowder of cats,
Avis took all of them for one last walk behind the trailer park.
I’ve forgotten how the cats and I fared that week in the trailer,
but I’ll never forget that day in the meadow,
the cats following their owner among the tall grasses,
a spectacle silhouetted in the setting sun,
the tips of 11 tails sticking up in the air.