So the purpose of this blog is to be a space to practice creativity. I am currently using it as a place to record a single, unedited poem for each day in 2019. While I attempt to write everyday, I may not actually post daily. Instead, I will post poems as they are completed, but one for everyday of the year. Not sure I can make it, but we'll see. It's fun to try regardless :)

Thursday, January 3, 2019

Poem: January 3, 2019

The Business

We're adopting a kitten we've named
Mr. Emerson Business III, Esquire
(for our various reasons).

The first time we met him,
he entered the room fully-charged,

his black and white fur standing,
it seemed, casually on end.
An effortless, soft explosion.

He was an uncontrolled tiny
tempest of continuous frenetic motion

like an untied balloon released
into the shelter room until he landed

somehow in the plastic trash can,
then paused, remembered himself, reinflated
and shot out after a shoelace, a shadow, a cell phone.

Absurd, really, and unpredictable.
An energy we miss when we see it suddenly.

Suppose this was our mission statement:
To create silliness with such abandon
and to give it to others as an unexpected gift.


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