Maggie

 
I give her a year. Knobs of her bones
feel sharp as her purrs.
A friend of mine is saying the same
of a friend of hers.

She has developed a yowl
deadly and pure as the soul
echoed at four a.m.
from some unfathomed hole.

April’s sun slows.  She finds my note,
a screwed up paper ball,
‘Vet!’ kicked for five minutes
round, round the shadowed hall.
 
Alison Brackenbury


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