Bit of White China by Marjorie Power

Photograph by Staci Williams.

 Bit of White China

Flash goes the camera but
the cat is immune.
Facing more or less our way,
she gazes past us
into a room where her eyes
provide the only light.

The cat sits on a tabletop,
ginger fur pressed
to bare wood.
And another presence, a jade plant.

The colour green
made its first earthly appearance
in the leaves of such a plant.
The cat ignores this thought
and gazes within
with jade green eyes.

Near the plant’s base
a bit of white china, shaped
more or less like a cat.
A work of art. Ears up, on the run.

Marjorie Power

Marjorie Power’s poetry collection, SEVEN PARTS WOMAN, is forthcoming in September from WordTech Editions. Her poems appear in one previous full length collection and six chapbooks, all from small presses, as well as many journals and anthologies. She lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband. They have six grandchildren.