Enemy of Entropy

Thanks to d2leddy for the link

The Blue Bowl
by Jane Kenyon

Like primitives we buried the cat
with his bowl. Bare-handed
we scraped sand and gravel
back into the hole.
                               They fell with a hiss
and thud on his side,
on his long red fur, the white feathers
between his toes, and his
long, not to say aquiline, nose.

We stood and brushed each other off.
There are sorrows keener than these.

Silent the rest of the day, we worked,
ate, stared, and slept. It stormed
all night; now it clears, and a robin
burbles from a dripping bush
like the neighbor who means well
but always says the wrong thing.

Otherwise: New & Selected Poems

Originally uploaded by Kimberly Jennery

Ditto showing off her new paint job!

This cuteness just strengthens my wish that we lived closer to Kimberly and her family. Click for more photos.

The video I dedicated to Katie isn’t actually called Wake Up Cat, and it has been pulled from YouTube (or it was—it seems to be back, now).

The piece is by animator Simon Tofield of Tandem Films, and is properly titled Cat Man Won. You can view it on their site.

By a dark, blue-eyed stranger who walked up to me last night. He looked into my eyes and I was gone!

We think he’s about 8 weeks old. He’s very skittish right now, preferring to stay out of sight and away from Shelley unless there’s crack wet food in question.

Shelley is NOT amused.