My Cat Has Taken a Lover

At night when I have gone to sleep

Another world begins For my cat has taken a lover.

He hops up on the window sill Waiting patiently until

The pale enchantress shows her face

Then he begs her come and share his space

At last she rises higher than the trees

Dripping with stars in an icy freeze

Then the silent one with enigmatic face

Woos my soft-pawed cat They fuse together in her pool of light

As with trembling whiskers and slitted eyes

He purrs the night away. Lynne Digby, Goshen