Gathering Dust<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her\nname, I don\u2019t recall but she was black, black. \nShe had kittens in my mother\u2019s linen closet, I<\/p>\n\n\n\n
only\nremember two, one was ebony, climbed into the car\u2019s engine, the other we named Toby,\ngray and white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My\ncollection of cats: Pewter, wood, ceramic, whimsical, true to life, one-inch\nsquare painted in Paris, ruby red from a long-ago friend. Salt and pepper shakers\u2014white with black\nspots from a patient I treated. Not\nexactly my style, but she insisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\nhave had two cats: Puff, he was feral, took two weeks to catch him in the\napartment, had tapeworms bad. Ivory came\nwith a fake gemstone collar, took that off right away. Puff, he used up one of his nine lives,\nswallowed an embroidery needle with thread. \nI found it in the litter box. \nIvory had one ear amputated, a tumor. \nNow I have two dogs, the greyhound trained to chase small fluffy things\nand a boxer\/pitbull who has forgotten Ivory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe,\nif I wrap the figurines up, take them to the thrift shop, someone will buy the\nsalt and pepper shaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
selcouth\nsouth 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gathering Dust Her name, I don\u2019t recall but she was black, black. She had kittens in my mother\u2019s linen closet, I only remember two, one was ebony, climbed into the car\u2019s engine, the other we named Toby, gray and white. My collection of cats: Pewter, wood, ceramic, whimsical, true to life, one-inch square painted in… Continue reading Gathering Dust<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}