State of Being

My deaf cat Saul is the noisiest

Of my three cats,

Rattling through the house

With a repetitive, ringing

Meow!  Meow!  Meow!

(my son calls this

The “sonar meow”)…

              

  As if to prove to his catty self

What his intact senses

Have failed to confirm:

“I exist!”

“I am here!”

“Meowwww!”

© 2016 Deborah Therese de Jong