What do you feel,
Cat beside me,
As we sit
Looking into the night?

Cool, delicious breezes
From a day of monsoon-delight
Have wetted arid land,
Creating an opposite
To other seasons-day.

What do you hear,
My cat beside me,
As babies develop
In your belly, tonight?

Burbling chirps of time's happiness
Bursts into a chorus! Wisps
Of flower scents tickle my ears,
Slip past my nose, in deliciously
Different directioned day.

What do you see,
Young mother beside me,
As we dreamily gaze
Into the freshened night?

Sweet, sensual caresses
Stroking away mind’s desert-dry
Rains, old barren flayings
Of planetary differences
Occurring every day?

What will you bleed, my cat,
As storm clouds shiver
And thunder reveres
Kittens born into night?

Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen
© Copyright 7/28/12