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The poetic city: “Meditation on Story Street 5/16/15”

Jan 27, 2020 • Creative Writing

The meditation of a sleeping cat. (Photo: Wiki Commons)

“Meditation on Story Street 5/16/15”

As I take my first sips of coffee

And slowly sink into the morning’s meditation

Ava the cat finds her way into my lap

Where she drapes her paws across my thigh

And settles into her place

As Ava settles into her place

Everything in my world settles into its place

And I think of how much you would enjoy

The sight of us together in silent communion

Yet, were you to arrive to bear witness

To this moment of crystalline stillness

It would immediately collapse

Into something quite different

And all you would get to observe

Would be Ava complaining

That the world was no longer

Exactly as she wishes it to be.

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