Stroking the cat
on the stairs to the garden.
The stairs go to sleep.

Nothing matters:

The dirt is here
the air is here
the leaves are here

the cat is here,
the hand.

The world is air.

The world drifts.
The stairs go to sleep.
Nothing matters.

The air
is asleep,
the world
is asleep,

is warm,
is fur
is
content.



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M. F. McAuliffe