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Things That Bang

The animals were imperfect,
long-tailed,
unfortunate in their heads.
Little by little they
put themselves together,
making themselves a landscape,
acquiring spots, grace, flight.
The cat,
only the cat
appeared complete and proud:
he was born completely finished,
walking alone and knowing what he wanted.
... the cat
only wants to be a cat
and any cat is a cat
from his whiskers to his tail,
from his hopeful vision of a rat
to the real thing,
from the night to his golden eyes. (Pablo Neruda, "Ode To The Cat")

Death visited part of me yesterday. A tiny part of me moved on from memories of adolescent camaraderie and laughter. A tiny part of me realized the pattern lived in the past no longer applied to my present. The removal was painless and done with grace. Life is whole again, past rests in the unconscious catacombs and present breaths.

Posted by Deepti Lamba on August 20, 2010 08:27 PM StumbleUpon Toolbar Stumble It! digg this del.icio.us Fark It | Permalink

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