Aqaric

A Familiar in a Strange Land

Catabolism of its soul's shadows
of its sole caterwaul
on winds that now blow its cabal
Parafeline of penumbra spaces
within prismic lines
Sadly alone under black and dark
places
with the painful blue nights of
         the Sadducee
In this cat's home of metabolic
mind
outward thrust from its familiar
         to the unknown a symbolic
feline
to us strange comes now, the Familiar.

- Frederick J. Mayer