Thursday, April 28, 2022

To Sleep with Cats

I have made myself other

by leaving home & by leaving

every home I ever made.

My brother luxuriates in home

though it embodies strife.

I luxuriate in climbing into a bed

& sleeping, wherever the bed is.

I’ve learned to sleep alone

to sleep with cats. They want

little more than ear scratching

body heat. I lean into bed

they lean into me, dead weight

in dead of night. When death

grows too heavy, I move away.


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