By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall (Rated G)
For Pushkin, of Happy Memory
And His House Pets Abbie and Alexander
In an ice-cream summer in the long ago
I met a marvelous cat in Gatineau
Pushkin by name, a fastidious Russian
His shiny fur coat never needed brushin’
He purred in an elegant iambic tetrameter
Precisely in its orderly parameter
A cat, of course, needn’t meter his speech
For a cat is a poem whose motions teach:
Running
Leaping
Sleeping
Purring
pouncing
Growling
Yowling
Howling
Twitching
Lurking
Sneaking
Posing
Dreaming
Snuggling
While in all things giving his children delight
In an ice-cream summer in the long ago
I met a marvelous cat in Gatineau
LogoSophia Magazine 