My cat’s tail

by JEREMY CALDWELL

dangles over the windowsill,
the way a fishing line might wave
in sunlight. But it’s too thick
for a fish-line, maybe a rope
for tying a boat to the dock.
On the couch I watch this tail sway
imagining that boat’s rope,
knowing the feeling of being towed:
Alarm dragging me from the bed
into a dusk-set room, my thoughts caught
in the drag of a murky livewell,
and with pen as my pole,
hoping to catch what’s in front of me.

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Jeremy Caldwell‘s writing has been published in Comstock Review, Work Literary Magazine, Potomac Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others. He received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and currently serves as Writing Center Director for Doane University.

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