Zeppo's First Wife by Gail Mazur

Author:Gail Mazur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Mensch in the Morning

He seems glad of the splay of sun and my attention;

playful but purposeful.

Chasing his tail,

he also pretends to ignore it,

then spins in the wooden cage of my chair’s legs,

trapping the thing

with a fast forepaw.

Again, he snubs it, faking absorption

in some abstraction—

motes in a light shaft.

Until he lets go,

he’s stuck, of course,

all his rage focussed on his caboose.

Lucky kitten,

to keep forgetting the limitations

of his choices—

is that a sign of health?

Now he sets the tail loose—

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