Space was the theme of this year’s Friends of the West Roxbury Library Poetry Contest. Here is my contribution that won honorable mention in the adult section.
Felix
the other day
my cat passed away
bundled in his old bed
held snugly in my arms
on the back porch
in the sunshine
the vet administered the shot
and in his new stillness
the space between us
revealed now as
impossible
and
real
copyright 2020 Christopher Donahue