Slick wetting streams
Off the slope of my back
Steam sprouts and floats
Like elusive dreams
Through the gap above
Luminous white curtain
Undrape the towel
And smooth over
Little globules of penetrating
Moisturiser
Little blobs of sweet smelling defeat
Nourish and feed the need
To flatten spurts of thorny
Animal
Cultivate a culture
Of shiny baby necessities
Give me your look
Give me your love
Give me your need
So I can feel
Necessary
I pull over clothes
Over my supple new nakedness
Tempered, perfumed
Acceptable
In civil society
Preferring waxing to
Shelves of stubble
On display counters
Inured to Pain
But open to criticism
Getting ready
To exfoliate
extract and expunge
The Unadulterated Cat by Terry Prachett, illustrated by Joliffe Gray, is a book written to promote what Pratchett terms the 'Real Cat', a cat who urinates in the flowerbeds, rips up the furniture, eats frogs, mice and sundry other small animals. The opposite of the Real Cat is the 'Fizzy Keg Cat', a well-behaved and bland kind, as seen on cat food advertisements.
What About Me
- Anita Sivakumaran
- I 'write a little everyday, without hope, without despair' as per Isak Dinesen. I like to get the writing done quickly so I can go out to grow veg and play tennis.
3 comments:
lovely poem.. evoked a lot of pictures in the mind... the parallels drawn were ironic, strak and beautiful...
Anita, your work is amazing. Can't have enough of your verse - what a turn of phrase - what dexterity in turning metaphors on their heads.
Kudos.
Thanks Asutosh and Gallimaufry. That's very kind :)
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