Cat’s Tail
written by: Christine E. Ray
@Christabelle666
word on the street
is cat’s got my tongue
but I assure you
that caustic kitty long exhausted
all nine lives with me
it is me biting down hard
with small sharp teeth
feeling the blood well up
behind clenched lips
as I slowly chew up
errant syllables
I long to spit like nails
into the frozen ground
forgive me an angry twitch
or two
of my bottle-brush tail
I am trying so hard
to saunter the high road
with my whiskers pointing north
fighting the instinct
tooth and claw
to swivel my head around
arch my back
and hiss
© 2018 Christine Elizabeth Ray – All rights Reserved
Christine E. Ray
Christine E. Ray lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A former Managing Editor of Sudden Denouement Publications, she founded Indie Blu(e) Publishing with Kindra M. Austin in September 2018. Ray is the author of the award-winning Composition of a Woman and The Myths of Girlhood. Her writing is also featured in SMITTEN This Is What Love Looks Like: Poetry by Women for Women an Anthology, We Will Not Be Silenced: The Lived Experience of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Told Powerfully Through Poetry, Prose, Essay, and Art, Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective, Swear to Me, and All the Lonely People. Read more of her work at Brave & Reckless.
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