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Un-Christmas Kittyku

kitty’s reflections
the Grim Reaper scythes
more ornaments

 

kitty on treetop
the angel of death surveys
damage below

 

body parts of balls
scatter across living room
kitty blames dog

 

demolition kitty
bulldozes Christmas tree
timberrrr!

 

Patricia Carragon’s latest chapbooks from Poets Wear Prada are Meowku (2019) and The Cupcake Chronicles (2017) and from Finishing Line Press, Innocence (2017). She hosts the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. Her debut novel, Angel Fire, is from Alien Buddha Press.