To My Recollection

Cat was very nice to mice: If asked for cheese, replied, how big a slice?~ My honor to please! -- Was also fond of backyard birds: Wonderful! Marvelous!~ his admiring words. Now dog, was a bit more ornery... he barked a lot, even at the laundry -- protector of all, in that way true~ a tinted greyhound, who answered to Blue -- Though some may doubt, lower critters can actually speak! Perhaps, likewise suspicious of my Chattering Creek…. -------------------------------------------------------------- There once was a Chattering Creek, Mostly happy but sometimes bleak; for the rains would come, and stir such a clutter, causing the waters to ripple and stutter; the edges would leak -- voice, more a holler! A vociferous flow~ Splattering! Splattering! Splattering! Till a breathless slow – dearer klatsch-like chattering~~chattering~~chattering~~