The Cat’s Song

Posted by Maverick ~ on July 2, 2015
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The Cat’s Song
by Marge Piercy

Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness.
My lover, my friend, my slave, my toy, says
the cat making on your chest his gesture of drawing
milk from his mother’s forgotten breasts.

Let us walk in the woods, says the cat.
I’ll teach you to read the tabloid of scents,
to fade into shadow, wait like a trap, to hunt.
Now I lay this plump warm mouse on your mat.

You feed me, I try to feed you, we are friends,
says the cat, although I am more equal than you.
Can you leap twenty times the height of your body?
Can you run up and down trees? Jump between roofs?

Let us rub our bodies together and talk of touch.
My emotions are pure as salt crystals and as hard.
My lusts glow like my eyes. I sing to you in the mornings
walking round and round your bed and into your face.

Come I will teach you to dance as naturally
as falling asleep and waking and stretching long, long.
I speak greed with my paws and fear with my whiskers.
Envy lashes my tail. Love speaks me entire, a word

of fur. I will teach you to be still as an egg
and to slip like the ghost of wind through the grass.

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23 comments on “The Cat’s Song”

  6. WP has deleted people I used to follow. It’s quite concerning as I was wondering why I wasn’t getting any notifications of my regular bloggers. I don’t know why this happens!! 😦 So I’m finding out I have to resubscribe again. Great post and your cat reminds me of my cat who died about 10 years ago. His name was Koji and was a mixed breed of a Burman and Siemese. Such a sweet ragdoll cat…

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    • Thank you. I think several other people have had that problem of WP deleting follows. Glad you’re back. 🙂 Koji’s an interesting name, sounds like a very sweet cat.

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