Chicken

I wasn’t supposed to be here. When our eyes meet through the windshield at sunset, that is my first thought, second only to the understanding that You are alone. I remember rejecting you, too, the day I met you; How I chased you away, again and again, tired of the mess you made. Until one

Speaking “cat”

One day, while visiting my parents, my father told me that his cat’s kittens had died soon after she’d had them. Her behavior confused him.  She wouldn’t eat, wouldn’t respond to my parents, wouldn’t even move. But the next morning, he saw that she’d taken the other cat’s kittens. Over and over, he called her