Poetry Month: In Bed and Slytherins--A Celebration

In Bed
Discontinuous we lie
with an old cat asleep
between our backs

where jealous children
used to squirm
wedged in between us

We grow old, you and I,
to be so equable, lying
back to cat and cat to back.
--Alice Ryerson


I saw this poem in a magazine years ago--long before my children came along, long before I was even married--and somehow it spoke to me of where I'd like to be in my life someday.

And now, for something completely different:

( Slytherins--A Celebration! )

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