The 60-Second Sabbath

Romeo

  • Catku

    Cat sleeps around cat.Sable bodies become one–union, no pretense. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Willy and Romeo

    My cats are clothed    in night.In darkness    they disappear. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.   Continue reading

  • What We Need

    I'll tell you what we need:    more ears    and fewer tongues. My cats will tell us what we need:    more purr    and less hiss. The snow-silenced woodswill tell us what us what we need:    less noise    and more glistening, listening stillness. Christmas tells you what you… Continue reading

  • A Day with the Cats

    I spend the day at home with my cats,doing exactly what they do:I sleep when they sleep;I eat when they eat(from my own dish on the kitchen floor);I play when they play;I remain on all fours,keeping as much as possibleat floor… Continue reading

  • Cat Food

    The cats I've hadexcitedly huntmice, moths, flies and grasshoppers,and will–to varying extent–consume them. I have yet to see themhunt downcows, chickens, calves and fish of any kind.And given their responseto the approach of a trundling toddler,I can only imagine them… Continue reading