April 17, 2021
Photo by Katie Mollon
The Snow and the Cat
by Kevin Tully
The snow fell like crystalline angel dander
A cat
black as eternity
draped across the back
of the writer’s chair
cleared its throat
A prelude to speech
He wrote
The snow fell like crystalline angel dander
The cat
black as eternity
shook its head
handing the writer
a note
“Eternity is not black as a cat
it is bright as the light
shining on snow like crystalline angel dander”
The cat
is black
the writer
wrote back