“Watching Egg (My Cat) Sleep from Across the Room” by Hayden Finkelshtain

May 21, 2024

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Watching Egg (My Cat) Sleep from Across the Room” by Hayden Finkelshtain. Due to its formatting, this poem is only available as an image.

Watching Egg (My Cat) Sleep from Across the Room)

By Hayden Finkelshtain

little, you were, thin-skinned and shapeless, bulrush paws too big for standing, (earned you with a niblet, leaning against my back) a half-filled chip bag itchy picnic-blanket on the ottoman, in the room with the space heater — — how glad to know that i made you feel at home and what a responsibility to myself, that my touch told you: you could stop running

Copyright © Hayden Finkelshtain

Hayden Finkelshtain is a Toronto-based actor and poet. Recent work has been published in Holes: An Anthology by JLRB Press, and in Stink Eye Magazine. He has two cats, Jack Black and Egg. @rudimentpoetry

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