Poem 2

A sketch of contented domestic life, cats Oscar and Jack snoozing on the washing …

… composed on the spot, a quick scrawl on a scrap of paper sometime in the late nineties … forgotten, found recently in a box … 

Numerals

The cats sleep on the laundry
a furry figure eight

while you and I in bed
are legs eleven

the warmth of bodies
on a grey Sunday
our house curled around us
like a washing basket