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

The creatures

The albatross watched from high above
at the calico cat slinking across the forest floor, a view of the situation from the ground among the trees and undergrowth
the queen bee flitting around, ordering her subjects

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Nonfiction

By Calico Frost

Get up

I'm watching you lie there, dejected, miserable at your idea of a failure. But it's not a failure if you got impressively high up on the leaderboard, if you got so close to winning but didn't.

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Fiction

By Calico Frost

Promise

I stopped here. I ceased my walking and stood here, for as long as I needed to be until they came. I wait for them. They haven't come yet.

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