Cat

Waiting for a friend to come yesterday morning there was a cat sitting in the long grass at the bottom of my garden in the fine rain

Sharp the ear point of concentration

- blue fur - turned and silhouette tuned

On wet grass - drip laden- posed

- a shape - the task - silence fixes  

This infinitesimal rain - a quiet -waits

Now gone - bright green - no cat

Reviews

[Kathy Van Kurin]

Michael Oliver,
Did I miss something? At first I think a cat is maybe hunting in wet grass with just it's ears showing. Wet grass the kitty is hunting and finds it's prize then is gone................Anyway it thoroughly fun to read. Thanks..........Kathy

[Michael Oliver]

No I do not think so
Remember Kathy the words of the poem are only part of the creative equation you ,the reader, gives it meaning

[Kathy Van Kurin]

Michael Oliver,
What a nice word to receive. I feel released and allowed to think on my own terms............kathy

[Cryingkate]

reading this again.. I read it as it is raining like cats and dogs. of coarse their is no cat

[jacob erin-cilberto]

what a portrait...blue cat...sounds like a russian short hair...like the use of silence throughout...we don't hear them...they stalk in silence...they move without sound.

[Cryingkate]

I get a chuckle from this. I can visualize this cat all prepared and in tuned for the hunt in the thick grasses only to be turned from the predator to the prey of a spring rain... LOL