Cats

cat abrasion

my Dermatologist, Dr W, a no nonsense Asian woman, checks everything out, Everything, and on each visit. ‘take off all your clothes and put this on, with the opening at the back’. my flounder’s belly white legs stare up at me. i wonder if i wiped properly earlier that morning. would i ‘leave something’…

mouse everest

wrapping the day up with late night emails i sense movement overhead, a scratching and a struggle. i look up and i swear-to-god there’s a mouse climbing the window curtain, way the fuck up there, near the ceiling, scrambling his skittery cuteness along the edge and vanishing onto the upper ledge. how…

mouse twitching

my cat, Sofi Wan Kenobi (or Sofia Di Putzi, or Sofi Anon depending on my mood) is a runt with a tiny head and a tiny body. she has…

exit ramp

the old girl is shifting rapidly into elderly gear. frail back end. an awkward, embarrassing struggle to leap onto bed or couch. long…

i shit you not

my cat noir, sofi wan kenobi, in her declining years, pisses and shits in weird places. places other than her glitzy shiny new black…

nurayev revives fonteyn

he pulls her out of retirement. they dance on big stages across the globe. she’s young again. he’s leaping to…

kitty projection (for Sofi who’s no longer of this earth)

mouse everest

wrapping the day up with late night emails i sense movement overhead, a scratching and a struggle. i look up and i swear-to-god there’s a mouse climbing the window curtain, way the fuck up there, near the ceiling, scrambling his skittery cuteness along the edge and vanishing onto the upper ledge. how…

mouse twitching

my cat, Sofi Wan Kenobi (or Sofia Di Putzi, or Sofi Anon depending on my mood) is a runt with a tiny head and a tiny body. she has a funny off kilter walk and a lopsided, skittering run. in fact she gallops (i hear there’s a ten syllable German word for this) up and down the hallway of our…

fart queen

i know. some do, some don’t. or they say they don’t, but they do, don’t they? right? everybody farts. (is that an R.E.M. song?) anyhow it…