"About to gorge on some homemade bread dip before supper!" by Sarah S, on Flickr

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The Cat at the Last Supper
by Roy Marz

Ghirlandaio let it sit
On the tiles between Judas and Jude,
Brindle and Iscariot's pet,

Bored with John's stricken stutter
And Andrew's fist aghast in the cherries
And Simon's trouble with the pewter.

Though the peacock's lucent pale blue
Spill of tail from the windowsill
Interested as a nuisance value,

Really the carbon irises
Kindled for birds through the open lunette
Or delicacies in the cypresses;

And whiskers rigid for rare spoil
Flicked hauteur at the broken bread
The taut master dropped on the tile...

Needles of shock on the brindle marble
Were affront. It primly mewed
Blood back in the paralyzed table,

And negatives in the nervous beards
Jangled the peacock metred to silence
But tocsined the giddy outside birds.