7.20.25

 they got you off the streets

the endless excitement of love and danger

you approached us

courageously

kisses between the eyes

you know something you

learned out there

defenseless

spiritual

7.19.25

 I think I see some onyx coloring around my lovelies eyes this morning. Loki & Vegas. I took my vitamins and they wound the mineral zoomy down to sweet sleeps!

1.30.25

 walking the city streets to work she stopped only for coffee. ideas clamored for attention since she shut out the news. today it was why not get a kitten for my two cats to raise? the wind bit her neck and she pulled up her collar. got to work super early. time to write. #katyamills

saved by the black cat

I woke up in a pejorative mood and mostly toward myself all the faults I could find in the mirror and at my feet the longing eyes looked up. the green eyed black cat saved my sorry ass once again! 

#katyamills

May 19th

yesterday was a cluster so I gave in. a bowl of lucky charms and oat milk. lying on the couch with my favorite blanket and the cats. watching true crime.

#katyamills

May 1

we were all breaking apart little by little day by day and it wasn't poetic. you with your back breaking work at the foundry, the kids living on credit and loans, me with my heartbreak. even the cats needed meds.    #katyamills

bottle blue

the voices bombed her head until she told them off

a touch of bottle blue coffee on her tongue

the cats lapped up a saucer of oat milk

the painting of a grape harvest had eight different shades of red

when the afternoon sun crept down the wall 

from the window and caught it

#katyamills

stride.nt

strident you wanted me to know how it was to live through the hardest times. i wanted to listen i want to know but can you slow down please you are scaring the cats 

#katyamills

all love

you were sunk in the couch trying to escape the world. i couldn't light a fire under your ass so i lit the three wick candle. the cats were positioned one on top of the other grabbing neck by the teeth and simulating sex. cut it out. you're brothers for godsake not to mention fixed. I rambled on senselessly in the dark. You have a love and hate relationship with coffee! you shouted. I had to stop and think. No. That's not right. It's all love.   #katyamills

pink on pink

you gave 

your wet nose 

to my fingertip

to cajole the catnip

mouse

#katyamills

2 elation

the saddest day 

gave way 

when the cat came home

to elation

got off work early 

watched birds by binocular

tacos and coke

we made love

fell asleep to maurice ravel 

nine inch nails and 

the smiths

#katyamills

homecoming denied

whistling and searching

they got they arm cut up and belly slashed

that's how the cat

tells you he's not coming 

home

#katyamills

farewell to a peaceful day

it started so well. a cool morning after a hot day in the valley. my love came to see me and we read the newspaper together on the balcony. like any couple on any sunday morning going back a hundred years. the prime minister of Japan had been assassinated. i went to prepare coffee and discovered one of the cats was missing. somehow the front door had been left open. my heart sank. we searched and searched. i called and whistled and called before falling into an emotional flatland. i went online to distract myself from the shock. one of my old friends whom i survived addiction with  - initials DC -  had been homeless on the streets for many months now. farewell to a peaceful sunday.   #katyamills

look away

years after the rescue my tiger finally lets me gaze into his eyes

 

#katyamills

mi gatos

hiding under blankets

listen to momma liquefy

oats ice bananas 

green and brown eyes with 

coffee spaced out super

perdidos obsessed by 

birds   #katyamills

cat and bird

blondy and the black cat 

brothers contemplative for hours 

on this high balcony

only a mouth

full of feathers

will end the procession 

of cans

#katyamills

6am

a murder of crows landed 

in the birch south of the second 

story window. we crouched 

like tigers aperture wide with 

teeth. i'm dead

#katyamills

the one

momma brought them 

home

searching for they

name brushing

they soft and storied 

coat round they 

long and emerald

eyes

#katyamills

still life

turtle green eyes stare wide off the back
of the couch strewn with catnip porous by hundreds of thousands 

of claws. fleck of tail. gnash of teeth

the red sun rising       #katyamills

mediocrity

mediocrity

a fine attribute if
you're a
cat