Steve Klepetar
Excuse Me
But one thing you’ll never hear from a cat is ‘Excuse me.’
Nor Einstein’s famous theorem.
Jane Hirshfield
No, but if it could move
at something approaching
the speed of light,
you might see a red glow
in August, or green as it fell
to the bottom
of some extraterrestrial sea,
even if you couldn’t tell,
until you looked,
whether the cat was alive or dead.
Steve Klepetar agrees that “an aged man in but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick unless soul clap its hands and sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.”