Monday, May 21, 2018

For a Dead Kitten

Put the rubber mouse away,
Pick the spools up from the floor,
What was charcoal shod, and gay,
Will not want them, any more.

What was warm, is strangely cold.
Whence dissolved the little breath?
How could this small body hold
So immense a thing as Death?

Sara Henderson Hay (adapted for Harry)