dVerse — Poetics — leaping through

open blinds flood morning sun cats curl ankles; loose slider two furred, lithe streaks jostle through leaping into bright top image cats in sun (not my cats!) dodoitsu form I am today’s host of dVerse’ Poetics.  I say: write about Leap Year, leaping, or an ekphrastic to the given image.

24 SSPC 10 (2nd wk — Nov 22 – Dec 6) Light Snow — Shosetsu

when early winter dusk comes birds fly to hidden branches humans couch up, sip toddies, to netflix and chill image link watch: when chilly north winds blow chipmunks tunnel in snowdrifts one furry little face may suddenly pop out “A Warm Hearth,” by Christopher Holmes midnight warmth around the hearth punctuated with a knock neighbor…