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Claus was my best friend
Through the Waterfall by Senyai
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He talked to me, a very vocal beastie
 a clairvoyant who read me from east to west -
 from my Monday worst to my Sunday best

Black white brown, a gray, fine boned
mutt who’s clock marked the day
changing places about our home
sunning by the glass door afternoons
on the couch-back after dinner
 anchoring us as time marched on

He practiced cat-telepathy effortlessly,
He was my rock, therapist of the 
highest order except not
when he sprayed my steamer 
or ripped my socks 

Claus, with your coat of many colors 
I miss your being who graced our home 
made it yours as we shared our own
Your ways, your button nose, 
almond mouth with whiskers curved 
but it was your eyes as you listened to my voice, 
shining shown, gilded black 
in pools of emerald gold

Now we meet through the waterfall
to your glistening world I cannot go
You sit and watch me in your now glorious coat, 
perked ears listening for my voice
through the rushing cascades

"Lully Lully, Clue, my bestest puffy chicken,
I’d step into your world if I had a choice."

 

Claus
October 2008 - July 25, 2024
16 years

 
~*~
 
 
 

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Author Notes
Claus was born from a stray mama cat named
DOC (standing for Damned Old Cat :-)

* Photograph of Claus when he was a younger boy.

Free verse with random rhyme

Thank you for reading.

     

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