Odes to Common Things

“We love a man who can write poetic truths about salt shakers and beds… and cats! 🐈 Men would like to be fish or fowl, snakes would rather have wings, and dogs would rather be lions. Engineers want to be poets, flies emulate swallows, and poets try hard to act like flies. But the cat wants nothing more than to be a cat, and every cat is a pure cat from its whiskers to its tail, from sixth sense to squirming rat, from nighttime to its golden eyes Nothing hangs together quite like a cat neither flowers nor the moon have such consistency It is a thing by itself like the sun or a topaz FROM "ODE TO THE CAT"”

“One of my favorites. I love all the things ❤️”

“Helps you see the beauty in the mundane in such an eloquent way.”