"Double Trouble"
Ink on Scratchboard
5"x7"

Created to accompany a poem by Theresa Allen that appeared in the November/December 2006 issue of Perspectives, a publication of
the Arts Council of Placer County
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How Quiet

©Theresa Allen

how quiet:
did the air sing
with the force of his leap
was the shattering
of the bowl
like thunder as the rain
continued to fall
or was it brittle
like lightning
startling the stillness
between leap and
landing-
the cat upon the table
the tray against the tiles;
two cats sleeping
where the tray
used to be
resting overturned
its treasures
increased by the shards
of the blue and white bowl