#18 NaPoWriMo

Today's prompt:  Write a poem featuring the cat family, whether big or small.


lionize her
leonine grace,
the pride,
the language of the tail,
the purr of harmonic resonance,
the purr that heals;

quiet paws give pause
and so we hang a bell,
when we should worship
the ancient god instead.

a cat by any other name
would scratch as deep,
bite as hard,
shed as much,
disobey as often,
eat as many moths,
and knead and nudge and curl up around the heart