It's Still Life

A Woman With No Cat

A woman with no cat has a hand-
bound book. Her friend made it.

Page 1, Line 1: a recipe note.
Something something add water.

She wears country-people shoes,
flat as sand, knotted at her thin ankles.

If she had a cat, it would wear a bell.
She loves birds. Pigeons aren’t birds.

She makes rye bread every Tuesday,
push and pulled on a wooden board.

Fridays she bakes a cake, and if she
had a cat, it’d lick sugar off the floor.

Jane’s Oracle spoke the words below. Image: WikiArt, Vincent Van Gogh 1887 The Shoes, public domain. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting #apoemaday on Twitter