DECKED OUT
Winter Haibun first published in The Drabbun Anthology by E. C. Traganas
DECKED OUT
By E. C. Traganas
As a child, I dressed my cat in doll clothes, brushed her fluffy silken fur, polished her toes and secretly rouged her rosebud lips and cheek pads with mother’s favorite forbidden lipstick. One cold winter day, I gave her a haircut. When the scissors accidentally clipped her ear, she screamed and ran away. I cried and cried, hoping she would come back home. A week later, they found her frozen body curled up near the back door, toe beans pale and white, painted lips still smiling. footprints near the door a brass knocker cloaked in snow just a strolling cat
Published in The Drabbun Anthology 3.0 https://a.co/d/01ExT7Hc
Author of the debut novel Twelfth House, and Shaded Pergola, a collection of haiku and short poetry with original illustrations, Touchstone Award nominee Eleni Traganas has published in over a hundred literary magazines and anthologies, has held over forty nationally-curated exhibitions of her artwork, and enjoys a professional career as a Juilliard-trained concert pianist & composer. www.elenitraganas.com
this made me cry. I'm sorry
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