Appetizer
Appetizer
My life changed when I reached my hand out the window, out to feel the cold dark moonlight
I put it there. I bought it that very day, small square greasy thing.
Let’s go back to the morning. It was a freezing morning but the sun blazed a light that gave no heat or warmth. This is very common in New England.
The ground was covered with frozen dust and streaks of glistening bands of water. The ground sparkled it was electric.
I went shopping and it was on my list so I bought it. It didn’t cost much but after I reached my hand out the window into the cold dark moonlight things changed, cost changed.
The day was busy with unplanned things. The neighbor’s cat got out and I happened to be looking out the window. Two elderly ladies were shuffling around the shrubs and looking into the bushes. One elder had given up and was walking to her car.
I walked over in my new dogg slippers. I called to them but they did not answer so I decided to just focus on getting the black cat that had run from them.
As I pushed into the needle sharp bushes I saw the cat trying to shake off each step it took in the icy snow. I spoke softly and then gently reached down and picked the cat up. No fuss. No fear.
I really love animals.
As I walked back to the house I saw it there. I put it there. I bought it earlier this day, as I told you.
It would be great if it does what it is suppose to do. Well, I will have to watch and see.
It is easy thing to view in the dinning room window. Slightly swinging but this is ok maybe it is suppose to move.
The day went on and the sun made its way around the windows and rooms as it passed. Soon it would be dark casting hidden light and shadows throughout the room.
The nights of the full moon are my favorite with all the crystallized crust on the ground and the cars on the window panes.
I decided to make something to eat and see what is on for Thursday night. My cat Cali was on the chair in the dinning room and was watching it through the window. She was not afraid.
The house was dark except for a small light on the table and the flash of the fridge opening and closing.
I thought I heard something outside scream. Maybe a fisher cat. The neighbors don’t like that I feed the outside cats and also have a parade of possums, raccoons and other critters come to the porch in the cold night. After a while I took the bowls in except the water. It is my goal to fatten them all up.
There was one cat in the heated cat shelter on the porch.
As I walked back in I saw it. I thought I saw someone or something dart by and waited for the bell to ring on the back porch. But it didn’t.
The cage was swinging a little too much so I opened the window and put my hand out.
My sweater got caught on the chain and now both hands were out and in the moonlight. I glanced up. So beautiful.
Then it happened, the snap was so loud as I dragged the chain toward me.
A second snap. This was my finger and hand that were cracking. Something had bitten me or the metal sharp edge had pierced my hand.
I pulled my hand in and away from the window and away from that small greasy square in the cage.
I was bleeding so I went to the bathroom and got peroxide and bandages. I didn’t think I needed stitches and I don’t have a car, so I will wait until tomorrow. Besides I heal unusually quickly.
Felt a little woozy but I didn’t get a chance to eat tonight or maybe a little to much wine for the evening.
The next day the small cage with the greasy thing was there but it was half eaten.
My neighbor across the street is a bird lover and he was the one that suggested I get this small greasy square full of seeds and bits of fruit and put it in the cage on the chain.
He said that the birds would find it.
During the day I drifted in and out of sleepiness. I fed Cali and woke when the house was completely dark, it was nightfall my favorite time.
I went to the window and opened it and reached out and pulled the feeder from the chain and climbed out into the night.
It wasn’t cold. I looked up at the moon and then down at my shadow. I don’t remember putting a coat on. I looked all around. And then I saw my hand with the bandage and fur sticking out in between the tape and gauze. I stretched my hands out with the long tapered claw like nails.
I picked the greasy square up and ate it but I was still hungry so I walked into the night.
In the distance I heard the fisher cat howl but then I realized it was me singing a new song to the moonlight of the full moon.
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