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"I look for you in the cat's soft fur"

by Halina Poswiatowska

Halina Poswiatowska

I look for you in the cat's soft fur
in raindrops
in a picket fence
and, leaning on the kind fencepost,
obscured by sunlight
- a fly in a spider's web -
I wait...




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