Observation - February 4th, 2019, Monday

There is a knocking sound coming from the refrigerator

I listen to the heavy breathing of my cat

Curled up behind me on the couch

Resting on her white blanket

Maybe she knows I am writing about her

She lifts her head up and squints

Maybe it is the noise coming from the kitchen

The knocking noises mimic the scurrying of mice

Random, faint, clicks and scratches

Like a voice calling to kitty

Get up and play.

Observation - January 4th, 2019, Friday

Observation

My lady tells me about her dreams

Playing string with Kitty, pouncing

The smell of coffee fills the house

In the dark morning, dressing, typing

I am listening, chatting with them

In the hour before sunrise

Observation - December 3rd, 2018, Monday

Observation

The world outside my window is covered in ice and snow

We are plunging into winter, and it is cold

I woke up parched, with the radiators drying out the house

Running hot all day, non-stop

Kitty is curled up in a ball on the couch

She slept under my arm all night

She is complaining about the snowy-world

With all the rabbits and the squirrels having gone to rest

Observation - November 3rd, 2018, Saturday

Observation

It is the 6^th hour of the third day of the eleventh month

There is traffic on the street in the cool November dark

It will be brighter at this hour tomorrow, saving daylight

My kitty does not read a clock, she has one inside her

Tick-tocking with the rapid beat of her kitten’s heart

She is curled up on the couch and I listen to her breathing

Observation - October 3rd, 2018, Wednesday

Observation

It is 3:45 am, there are lights flashing outside my window

They are cherry and berry blue, spinning fast on the bar

Of an ambulance and a firetruck, chirping in the night

Small bursts of noise blurting from their sirens

It is a normal morning on Bryant, across from the home

Kitty jumps down from the window where she had been

Perched on the lookout for creatures moving of the night

The rabbits and fox, and the bushy raccoon

Observation - September 3rd, 2018, Monday

Observation

I listen to a car roll by outside my open window

The sound of traffic is low, I have not noticed any busses

There is a beeping like an alarm going off at the nursing home across the street

Or of a van backing up, but it has been going off for hours

It is Labor Day today and the city is still sleeping

Summer is coming to an end

It promises to be warm today, not hot, the breeze is cool and dry

Kitty is running from window to window, chortling in her brisk meow

There is something happening outside

A born squirrel, or a chip monk in the tree

They vanish, and she grows quiet

Observation - August 3rd, 2018, Friday

Observation

There is traffic on Bryant

The windows are open

The sound of tires

Rolling on the pavement

Cars and trucks and busses

A plane flying overhead

Preparing for touchdown

Kitty is licking her white paw

Cleaning her tawny head

Observation - July 3rd, 2018, Tuesday

Observation

Kitty stretches her front paw

A sparrow cut across the plane of view from the front window

Cool clear light bends through the wavy glass

It is quiet in the morning

The cup filled with coffee is warm in my hand

A breeze on my neck from the black plastic fan

Observation - June 3rd, 2018, Sunday

Observation

The Twins are tied in the bottom of the eighth

I can smell the cut grass through the open window

My lady is out front pushing the mower

I can hear it rattle, in a rhythm with my typing

The hum of traffic flowing by on Bryant

Kitty is on her bench looking at the action

The Twins exit the eighth without advancing

The sun is bright and the air is cool, afternoon