the cat

This poem has 6 stanzas one couplet one quatrain two quintain and two sestet. The way the lines are cut off makes the poem read more aggressive. Each stanza besides the couplet is one sentence. “Outside it was night like a book without letters.” I like the book metaphor a book without letter would be white but still reminds us of night. “I said to her do not go why want nothing?” I think this can mean Nirvana to want nothing but can also man to want material need which really amount to nothing. Wanting material objects or searching for salvation can lead to losing our self’s. “No one ever saw her again. Not even she herself.” I loved that line of the poem.