clowder loop
By Raelee Lancaster, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips
Published 27 June 2024
In Japan, the Community cat – or Chiiki-neko – has no owner
but is collectively beloved.
Beloved sees you open heart / hearth / hand: Bastet’s stalwart
pilgrim. But a cat gifts mice when it thinks you cannot hunt.
Footnote: this poem was created using the Deflated couplets constraint as the starting point.