“He half-licks at the food, turns away,
or shifts, licks at himself and tears out patches of gray fur.
This food was living light, green where it drank
from the sunlight.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “I Tell My Dying Cat Stories About his Food” by Kristine Nowak from Vol. 32:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here.
Kristine Nowak is an academic librarian in Colorado. Her poetry has been published in Whitman College’s blue moon, as well as the Lexington Poetry Month anthologies Her Limestone Bones and This Wretched Vessel (2013 and 2014). Her website is www.kristinenowak.com.