Cat In The Moonlight

My Willow comes to the bedside and the moonlight halves

her little upturned face into light and shadow.

The moonlit eye beseeches me to invite her up.

The silvering of her fur accentuates the line of her flanks

and her feline beauty.

I pat the bed and, in an instant, she alights beside me

and curls up in contentment.

2017

(from the book Discoveries In The Dark by Doris Potter)

© Doris Potter