I used to see her coming.
I used to see her going.
Running a brief nervous run
or tip-pawing.
I used to identify her within the bushes after sundown,
able to unfold throughout somebody’s carpet.
I might see her even when the fog was thick as vail,
fortunately waving her massive bushy tail.
She’d nap within the shade of my palm tree when it was scorching
or go away frosty paw-steps on the tin roof when it was not.
I bear in mind the evening after I got here up together with her identify.
She was like a pressure so I couldn’t make it tame.
She wasn’t mine so that you’d suppose it ought to’ve been all the identical.
But I wanted to name her one thing after we performed a recreation.
So find out how to identify one thing that belongs to a different dwelling and
seems rapidly because it disappears like an omen?
How do you cling on the air of her free spirit
or let her go when your coronary heart simply isn’t actually in it?
I used to be watching you bounce down off that prime put up
then rolled round your thick fur on the frost.
It was the coldest trying factor on the entire highway.
You have been so heat after I rubbed your stomach whilst you unfold broad.
It was then after I determined what your identify ought to be.
I’m actually sorry it was a special occasion that went with out a deal with.
I might have appreciated to know then what you actually suppose.
But you responded after I known as you over ever since.
So many moon cycles have modified since then.
So many I wouldn’t even have the ability to say when.
But there was a day after I was there and you weren’t.
And possibly there have been nights once you have been waitng however then I forgot.
Today my coronary heart’s eternally reserved a clean spot
for Avalanche – the white cat I met on a darkish evening stroll.