Daydreams of Daydreams: Cat Lady

Cat lady,

With stripe-like wrinkles

And purple veined paws

Rocks back and forth

On her lone front porch.

Surrounded by her feline family,

The heavy folds of her shawl

Coated with hand-me-down fur

And perfumed with the stench of cat-nip,

She sits.

The squeaking of ancient wood against ancient wood

Accompanies the purr of her family;

Music to her lame ears.

With faraway eyes the color of sea foam

And a stoic smile of eons passed

She nods in answer to every mew;

Like a mother cat to her kittens.