Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SIGN BY THE ROAD: KITTENS FOR SALE, by BETTIE SALE First Line: Can you imagine anyone selling his kittens? Last Line: But never, not ever black, white, tabby or calico kittens! Subject(s): Animals; Cats | ||||||||
Can you imagine anyone selling his kittens? -- Young kittens with eyes like plops of opaline dew? -- Kittens with twitchery ears and little pink candy-heart noses? And bellies of snowy fluff and paws like feathered roses? If I hadn't two cents to my name I wouldn't sell kittens; Not if they rolled underfoot and clawed runs in my hosiery, Or meowed incessantly for cream and expensive cat-ration, Or were littered in batches of twelve twice every lunation. For never were light-flash or shadows so nimble as kittens -- (Dart-legged, eld-worshipped, deemed sacred, and mummied in spice!) -- Nor so deft, nor so daft swifts, junebugs or squirrels -- so winning Knaves, elfmen or pixies -- adepts at frank amiable sinning. I can imagine one selling his shirt or his ancestors' kettles, Or his pottage, or his cottage, or -- in China -- his daughters, Or his collection of stamps, or his car, or his old driving mittens; But never, not ever black, white, tabby or calico kittens! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW THE MIRROR LOOKS THIS MORNING by HICOK. BOB THE LONELY MAN by RANDALL JARRELL IN SEVERAL COLORS by JANE KENYON OPENING HER JEWEL BOX by WILLIAM MATTHEWS HAZARD FACES A SUNDAY IN THE DECLINE by WILLIAM MEREDITH FINALITY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |
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