Oriole
I never have been able to figure out what was sticking out of this gull’s head.
Transcience
For CFFC Birds
CFFC Birds, Sept 27, 2022
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Monthly Archives: September 2022
Feline
Feline
On the savannah or on my knee,
the difference is one of degree.
That resolution of feline will—
the stroke, the purr, the spring, the kill.
Only the size and prey may change—
the speed of spring, the chase’s range.
Stalking over rock or rill
or perched upon the window sill,
large or small or maned or not,
they are exactly as God has wrought.
Wild or domestic, the fact is that
simply put, a cat’s a cat.
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
No fall to earth, no plaintive cry.
No false regrets. No ending sigh.
No stab, no arrow and no shot.
All of these things were not her lot.
No accusation of who’s to blame.
No faulty party here to name.
Let mourners mourn if mourn they must,
reduce her body into dust.
They do it all to no avail,
She sees no tears. She hears no wail.
I fear your mourning goes too slow.
Only her body remains below,
for she departed long ago
to melt into that greater flow.
For her, all mortal customs cease,
so let her mourners rest in peace.
Prompts offered at this point are plaintive, accusation, stab,
Nasturtium: The Letter “N” Floral Alphabet Challenge, Sept 27, 2022
An Amazing Ending to the Cat Intruder Story
A few days ago I published a story about a cat who showed up at my house, terrorized my other cats and attached itself to me like glue. Under ordinary circumstances, I would have done what I’ve done with every other animal that has come to the house or attached itself to me on my walks. I would have adopted her. But, she wreaked utter pandemonium in my house. The other cats ran from her in spite of the fact that she was half their size. When she went into the backyard to perch herself on the ledge below the upper wall, the dogs went crazy, jumping up and barking. There was nothing I could do to remove her as she was behind a stand of dense banana and ficus trees and seemed to be enjoying teasing the dogs. I had to feed the other cats inside or they ran away when she approached and she ate all their food.
I tried confining her in a large carrier for hours, thinking she’d run away when I released her. Instead she wound herself around my legs and got in front of me, threatening to trip me up with ever step I took. All day and all night long, she went from outside door to window to door of my house crying, then climbed the screens to hang, beseeching.
This went on for two days until I discovered that Yolanda was open to taking her to her home, a mile and a half away down the mountain in San Juan Cosala, so I drove her there and heard no more for two days. Then, today when Yolanda came to work, I asked her how the new cat was working out and she said very well, that he was living with her sister’s daughter. When I asked why, she remarked that Alejandra had come over to see her and immediately recognized as one of her own cats that had annoyed the neighbor and so he had taken him (I had been sure “he” was a “she”) with another cat up to the mountains and released them.
This was a long distance from her house, but just up the mountain from me, evidently, and somehow the cat found its way to my house and worked its wiles to eventually wind up back home again. Now how is that for a “The Cat Came Back” story????
In case you missed them before, here are my two other stories about the cat intruder.
https://judydykstrabrown.com/2022/09/23/intruder-my-pick-for-cwbc-sept-22-2022/
Maria
Maria
I’m dull-witted and dysfunctional, I’m of no high degree.
I’ve no diploma in a frame. I am a refugee.
I know you think I’m no account and of the lowest order
just because the chances are I sneaked over the border.
But you’ve been on my horizon since the day that I was born.
I’m the brown girl on that other side of town you choose to scorn.
Perhaps I scrub your sinks out and walk your kids to school.
Because I do not speak your language well, you think I am a fool.
So far I’m ineffective in showing who I am.
You furtively observe my movements with your insta cam
to make sure I don’t steal from you or seduce your spouse.
You request I don’t show up again in that sexy blouse.
But I’m as smart as I am pretty and I go to school at night.
One day I will convince you that a brown girl can be bright.
One day I’ll teach your kids in school, and believe me when I do,
I’ll teach them not to be stubborn and prejudiced like you!!!!
Prompts for today are frame, refugee, account, ineffective, horizon, stubborn, dysfunctional. Image by Omar Lopez on Unsplash.
The Letter “M” Floral Alphabet Challenge, Sept 26, 2022
Milkweed
Morning Glory
Marigold
Morning Glory
Moss Rose
Please link your “M” flowers both to comments below and to Cee’s FOTD
The Elopement: Wordle 571 for The Sunday Whirl, Sept 25, 2022
Elopement
The sky liquid amber and the hills mushroom brown,
we sail on love’s vapors right over the town.
Once we felt dirty, but now we feel free,
released from the rules learned at the knee
of parents who left us with nothing but scars
of guilt over kisses in back seats of cars.
We vow to forget all we’ve heard of their lies
as we flee solid earth to escape through the skies.
What was once key we admit has no power
as passion bursts out to bud and then flower.
Those flickers of guilt we shed as we fly,
leaving mere earth to soar up to the sky.
For The Sunday Whirl Wordle 571 the prompts are: mushrooms key liquid admit dirty felt flicks hear amber solid Image: Marc Chagall’s “Over the Town.”
Shop, Shmop I Say
Culinary Innovations
She’s been gone almost a week.
Solitarily homebound, he discovers:
You have to let them egg-soak
a little longer than bread slices,
but French toasted Ritz Crackers
are almost as delicious
as French toasted Fig Newtons.
Natural Images. Do You See What I See?
What has nature seen fit to draw on my large flower pot? You tell me what you see and then I’ll tell you what I saw.
What I first saw was the same empty-eyed skeleton skull that is hanging from the overhang of the bedroom far behind the flower pot. Can you see it? You can also see a sketchy rendition of the bones of his body below. Eerie.
All of the answers of what others saw were on Facebook, so I’ll duplicate them here:
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Tamara Alaine MitchellA dog and a monkey.
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Cheryl KennedyI see a monkey face and ears about 1/3 of the way down. Also could be his hand.<img class="" role="presentation" src="data:;base64, ” width=”18″ height=”18″ />
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Sara AxelsonI see a horse with a parakeet on its head holding a small dog
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Jim AnshutzA dog and a monkey
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Carol BradleyI see a pregnant alien with big ears and wearing sunglasses.<img class="" role="presentation" src="data:;base64, ” width=”18″ height=”18″ />Leland OlsonA mother baboon holding her baby<img class="" role="presentation" src="data:;base64, ” width=”18″ height=”18″ />Sherry Holiman SwindleA dog with a mask on<img class="" role="presentation" src="data:;base64, ” width=”18″ height=”18″ />Judy Dykstra-BrownAnd i see that I have very creative friends!!!! There is one more thing no one has seen which is the first thing I saw.Shannon EvansDragon and a monkey
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Jim AnshutzA dog and a monkeyAnd a couple pigs
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