Fractal Cats

They breathe, sleep, dance
through dimensions of space:
spirals and doorways,
in a house otherwise asleep.
In their eyes,
galaxies reveal themselves
in a front hall's light.
No star, no stone,
no dark matter defers
their path, a thing of knowing,
as only they know.

Meg Smith is a poet, writer, journalist, dancer and events producer living in Lowell, Mass. Her poems have appeared in The Cafe Review, Pudding, Poetry Bay,The Horror Zine, Silver Blade, Raven Cage, The Blue Hour Anthology, and many more.

Her short fiction collection The Plague Confessor is available at her online store! megsmithwriter.com

Her most recent poetry books, Pretty Green Thorns, Night's Island, This Scarlet Dancing and Dear Deepest Ghost, are available on Amazon.

Find more by Meg Smith in the Author Index.