I'm glad your kittens

for Jentri

I'm glad your kittens
are comforting you: one on your belly
and one at your feet, one on your face
to make you gigglesneeze,
one purring uncontrollably
against your neck.

They are circling
your hurt vibrations, part of a music
humans made.

I am too deliberate to be a cat,
and the slight gracefulness
(in less fur) of which I am capable
will someday receive a beating
from the police. And the cats
will climb all over me.