Appreciation

Our last meeting

I rehearsed my part

I read my speech

you looked on with pride

I'm proud, too

I can sing and read in a different language

from ancient scroll with no vowels that sort of smells bad

I can't thank you enough

you've helped me grow

learn

experience

without you

I would be nowhere

without you

I wouldn't know how amazing your crepes are

especially with maple syrup and raspberries and blueberries

the perfect, thin, folded treat dusted with confectioner's sugar

I will come visit

I will miss you

I will remember you with respect

honor

joy

thank you.

Gussy the cat

Calico Frost

VT

13 years old

Poetry

By Calico Frost

Drowning in the unknown

I am tormented by slight movements
even silence is hurting me
reality seems to be strobing
or something like it -
I've yet to learn how to explain these moments to others,
even myself.
It's not normal,

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Poetry

By Calico Frost

Anticipation

This is the worst kind of anticipation
this anticipation isn't just fear of what is to come
it's laced around the edges with knowledge of how it went last time
of how a repeat of last year is most likely inevitable.

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Poetry

By Calico Frost

Dear Musketeers,

You two have entered my life at different times
yet you both mean the world to me
I dread separation -
the battle between boredom and loneliness cancels out everything else and I miss your everyday comments on the world

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