Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Ceramic Owl

a tea-lite novelty

is No More.

Eye found It smashed

on The Floor

when Eye came Home

yesterday

butt This was not a total surprise —

twice before

Eye found It there

unbroken

by The Cats

or A Cat

& Eye heedlessly

put It back

on Its perch

to be whacked off

yet again

in M(eye) never-ending

carelessness