Lines On My Cat Harry - A Villanelle

            

   Lines On My Cat Harry  -   a villanelle

She is a line of black and liquid light
Which slides in at the window past the moon,
Then purrs the blues to me throughout the night.

I may awake to sounds of lust or fight:
Catcophony that some might call a tune.
She is a line of black and liquid light

Whose presence blends the senses  - touch and sight
With hearing.  When I stroke her, very soon
She purrs the blues to me throughout the night.

This warm, melodic nearness seems so right
But then she’s gone  - a ghost in moon and gloom.
She is a line of black and liquid light

And answers not to human love or might,
Yet her dismissive, independent mood
Still purrs the blues to me through day and night.

My life, just like my linen, was once white
But now her paws print both with careless runes
To tell me she’s a line of liquid light.
My black cat purrs the blues throughout the night.

   

Taken on: May 22, 2005

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Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S304, f/2.8, 1/140 sec, 11.9mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm FinePix S304
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	0.007 sec (1/140)
Focal Length:	11.9mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
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