Kit Kelen - ekphrastics - Appel's cat - 1951

Appel's cat – 1951

confused about colour

it is all cats and none

it is a vanishing

and an amazement

I believe that you

know these eyes

the tail is wired

the cat wears a skulled cap

what are its whiskers?

who dares say?

cat of all other colours

the yellow is a feigning

while your empathic sigh's still strong

the two claws shown

delicate as painted nails

have your heart to shreds

an amusement cat, you'll say

card carrying party feline

cat for the Rosenbergs

to hold through the trial

and later in the chair

dead and alive

whose cat is that?

a Munch cat

and Möbius

turns in the circle it is

for which silence

all this while you rub up

arch, shake

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