Catch-22 in Northern Idaho
"White supremacists were denied a cross-burning permit today because of
tinder-like consitions in the Hayden Lake area."
Seattle Times
It was not my heat
alone or yours saying
in Nazi breezes
scoop up one white cat
clutch fur to chest
have for an instant
a monogrammed Yosserian coat
holding the very entrails in.
Soon purrs turned low to growls
claws stitching black reminders
saying I couldn't have you
in the holding
or the setting free.
Timothy Pilgrim