River Cat

I’ll call you River Cat!
Your fur a river of dark dappled with light.
Scintillating sunlight, molten, golden,
Glistening, gliding,
Sliding into shifting shadows
Of tea-tree, umber and amber.

I’ll call you Audrey Hepburn Cat!
Your slinking, sinuous, sensuous limbs
Gloved in black velvet.
Where is your Cartier bracelet?
Where is your diamond tiara?

I’ll call you Furr Bear and Purr Bear!
And bury my troubled head
In your warm belly fur.

I’ll call you Womb Cat!
And you’ll enfold me
In your primal mothering.
One paw over me,
Protecting.
Fur belly rising,
Fur belly falling.

I’ll call you Dream Cat!!
And you’ll draw me deep
Into your eyes.
Eyes of inscrutable clarity
Eyes of glass, eyes of jade.
Golden and green,
Unfathomable, beckoning;
Entrancing, enslaving.
Those eyes where there is
No thinking, no feeling.
Only being.

And I’ll call you Gone Cat!
And you’ll be gone
And I’ll be gone
And we’ll be as
Faint wind whispering in fur
Faint wind rippling on water
Fading, then forgotten.