For in the Cat, beauty is ordinary

Ur Jubilate: An Homage in Catterel* Verse

By Joyce Carol Oates

For I will consider my Cat Cherie

for she is the very apotheosis of Cat-Beauty

which is to say, nothing extraordinary

for in the Cat, beauty is ordinary

like the bliss

conferred

upon us

in the hypnosis

of purr-

ing.

Joyce Carol Oates 

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Bild på katten Cherie från Joyce Carol Oates twitter.