Alley Cat

ALLEY CAT The city alley kitten is fire boned body electrified in barbed wire fur snarling ferocious wild fear bigger than its raging dot of an existence hissed from behind garbage cans at this naïve boy also determined to make this kitten a pet upstairs in our three room cold water flat armed with a trapper’s cardboard box trap and work gloved hands I did snag the little hell fire fur ball and then spent the next pain days upstairs with my step father’s help again trying to get at the tiny fire beast now out from under the tub and soon a scratched denouement fire ball kitty gloved back in its alley dark and trashy and I nursing a fang bit clear through the thick work gloves into my thumb nail to keep the lesson about allowing wild things to be wild Charles Eastland from Amazon Kindle eBook: The Car Has Ears