“Not Tonight”
by Roger Darnell
The things I find entertaining aren’t things I can write about.
I like to imagine stories about our cat, taming her world,
unafraid and attitudinal, eccentric and, well, beautiful.
Our other cat inspires her own happy go lucky devil-may-care
cavalier and friendly tales… which are still just cat fancies.
Romantic stories from Europe, South America
and Pennsylvania Amish Country beginning to take pixel-life
in my imagination, are hopefully the right stuff and will someday
prove worthwhile things I will have written about. For now
they’re still in the layer just above my vision, in a place I can’t see
because, looking, it rises above. Yet I can imagine it and,
without looking, see it perfectly. The work I’ll create, in a night
where the vein runs longer than this one.
Much longer….
— August 14, 1997
