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| The cat lover (1920-2013) |
Her whole life
was her cats
and she loved
them all endlessly
the bad tempered
blind cat
of the wardrobe
as much
as the cat
with the hump
on its back
and the cat with three legs.
She loved
each cat as much
as the others -
each cat as much
as the others -
and each one
as much as
the cats that slept
on her bed
till the end
of their lives
as much as
the cats that slept
on her bed
till the end
of their lives
'neath the cat
with gold eyes
on the wall.
on the wall.
*
Before the preacher
had sprinkled the water
and the boy with the incense
had wafted
all those cats
in their heaven
had already welcomed her
home.
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This is absolutely lovely Gwilym. I shall send a link to my daughter in law - she is also a cat lady (and has a three legged cat).
ReplyDeletePat, I hope she enjoys it as much as you obviously did.
ReplyDeletelovely memorial for whomever she was
ReplyDeleteThank you Gerald, she was the aunt of a friend. But I knew her well. I wrote short stories about cats and gave them to her at Christmas so that she could improve her knowledge of English. In fact she once told me that during the Hitler years she and five other women would hide in a cellar and read English texts and listen to the BBC believing that Hitler was certain to lose the war and that afterwards they would be forced to speak English. As happened to the Welsh as I remember it. Google "the Welsh Knot".
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