As I type this, my cat Nilli is circling and fussing at me. Does she sense that my chapbook about cats, Cat Show, is now available on Amazon? Heck no. She’s reminding me that no one has set out her lunch, and she’s starving, possibly (probably) near death.
OK, I’ve fed her. Now I can have some peace while I finish writing this. As I was saying, my cat chapbook, Cat show, is available on Amazon for Kindle/ebook. Cat Show is a selection of poems about cats or where a cat at least wanders through a poem but leaves because it’s bored. Some of these poems were previously published in one of my other books. Others are out for the first time. Moods range from grief to humor, and forms include free verse, sonnets, and everything in between. Cat Show also features artwork by my children (though done when they were much younger than now).
Below is a poem from Cat Show that also appeared in my latest book, Shadow and Memory. It is a light-hearted treatment of Erwin Schrodinger’s thought experiment, which challenged speculative ideas in quantum mechanics.
Schrodinger’s Catnap Our tiny tortie, Lily, sleeps so hard in the paisley, plush armchair, she may or may not be dead and alive at the same time.
A Wandering Minstrel 