A wild tom watches us from the
top
of the wooden fence, a ruff of
hair around
his neck like James Dean with
his leather
collar turned up, looking like
he wants
to cut me but settling for the
disrespect
of an extended yawn. It’s a
sloppy
morning, early March, mud
bubbling up
around the last patches of
snow, and I
suspect the cat took to the
fence line
to keep his feet dry. My
granddaughter
and I, however, have work to
do
in the mud, and cannot afford such
squeamishness. Bill Nye, the
guinea pig,
after a fitful night during
which we sat
vigil, gave up the ghost just
before dawn,
lay in state, briefly, during
breakfast,
in his sock-lined Crocs box,
and now young
Clara looks for the perfect
spot
in which to plant his remains.
She hasn’t
discussed her views on heaven,
with me,
and does not request that
prayers
be prayed over his white-and-tan
form,
nor over the final resting
place she chooses
under the birch tree where we
have often
watched brilliant goldfinches
and nuthatches
hanging upside down from its
branches,
and where now we root in the
dark soil
at its base. My eye on the cat
hunched
on the fencepost like a raven,
I tell her
we will need to dig deeply if
we hope
to keep good Bill from a
premature
great gettin’ up morning, and she
sets
to the work like a fervent
acolyte, or
like a kid up to her elbows in
mud.
(from MockingHeart Review, 2017)
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