A CHORUS OF CAT BELLS

by Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Hawk West Desk Window 8:11pm

By this time tomorrow

We’ll have a chorus of cat bells

around the necks of five nude cats

(one hunter has two bells already)

after the fact

of one tiny yellow bird leg

a gut the size of a dime

and three yellow feathers

left by Somebody

on My Sacred Deck