Just cats at play—that’s what we’d say about any unsavory tension
Because no camera could capture it
scarcely as vivid as let’s say (ninety-nine) words
on the wall—: see
dowel cocked, snow-soft sweater string
drawn along lambent hummocks, the
kantha’s veins swoln ocherous, sinewy
ticker-taped trim as an inchworm’s
hoof prints chewn through giggled
bouquets of nursery-pastel pansies,
sweater string, track marks, cross-hatched,
itching up Andean furrows of luminous
goosefoot, slack-jawed snare slipped
teasing wrist flick, tug by
tug until burst from the
sulfurous rug, her beans beat
seam-ripping ersatz sandstone’s
crow’s-footed lips—this lavish
excuse for a muppet caught
shredding the sheets to but
make of a sweater string what she must
make of the dewdrops dithering,
nematode round, and yowling, cudding
a gaunt Kali into gutka.
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An inchworm’s hoof prints! Your imagination is boundless.
Amazing:
trim as an inchworm’s
hoof prints
Love it!