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the hill blinks
and is that gash a mouth
his lava eyes

Poetry Planet

The new Poetry Planet (Diane Severson Mori) is audio poems about animals & other creatures. It includes a poem by me, about my late cat Orpheus, with homage to Fritz Leiber & HPL.

Here is StarShip Sofa (Poetry Planet is near the end)

http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2016/02/17/starshipsofa-no-423-kary-english/

and here is a link to info. about the poets and the poems.

http://divadianes.blogspot.de/2016/02/poetry-planet-no-16-animals-creatures.html

050712

in book six
of my annual pigrimage
Fafhrd & Gray Mouser

He was a good cat

Orpheus in Ulthar, in Nehwon


 Some say
 cats rule in Ulthar,
 that their strong-paw tactics keep the streets
 clear of zoogs & other riff raff.
 Maybe so, and perhaps, with sinuous leaps
 they can clear the gulfs
 between universe bubbles
 in vengeful hordes.

 But I can't see it.
 My cat doesn't come
 when I call, and no special whistle
 is going to change his mind.
 No purr pressure would make him
 join any Ultharian gang;
 he is a solitary fellow,
 if always ready for a scratch.

 I do wonder, though,
 where he goes for a day or more
 Now and then.
 I swear he never leaves the house.
 But those curious bones
 he was playing with
 after a long absence, they
 fit together for me only one way.
 When I remember
 I'll show them to my anatomist friend.
 I'm sure he won't end up joining
 two pelvises, one set of shoulder blades, six limbs,
 and an impossible number of vertebrae
 to a single oddly holey skull.


 The end

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About 1/2 way thru Leiber's Swords in the Mist, in my aperiodic rereading of the greatest S&S series of all time.


an unrelated omep


candles
wait with socks
we know she needs socks

thanks 4 th wrdz, Muse

Watch out, they spit

The aliens did look a bit
like waterfowl
mauger the tentacles
and of course
good thing they
were pacifists
considering what Leroy
and his partner Billy Bob
did to the Envoy.

Good, though.