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Cat with Love Poem by Ernie O’Dell
Ernie O’Dell is the Prez, and here’s why. She has graciously given me this poem for my catblog during National Poetry Month. The cat is Smokey, who knew his own beauty.
A Love Poem
Night after night the cat stands long-legged on my chest
between my eyes and the page, her arrogant, innocent
fur-ness guarding me, regarding the words unaware.
Meee, she is saying.
Meee – the purr
the rumble –
love meee.
She rubs the slit of her mouth on my chin, her perfume,
faint and funky, rising with warmth, a reminder of a
recent slant encounter, rising not unpleasantly.
She slides off finally to snug beneath my arm, content
to watch my pen crawl the paper – an eye-tease.
She cuts her eyes to mine
like the insolent flirt that she is,
then lets them slide away
as if she is privy to the only truth that matters.
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