That Boston life packed up so small

[sovay]

We would have attended the unveiling for Autolycus if he had been buried in a cemetery with a bronze marker, not a cairn at the foot of the forsythias where the small glacial stones have been piling all year and stray mint and rhubarb growing. It doesn't feel like a year. It doesn't feel like enough time to accustom to the absence of cat. All the rituals of our days are changed and remain so. We carry his memory with us, but I would rather carry the cat himself, all sixteen of his front claws hooked on my shoulder, dust-pink pads held skin-to-skin, seal-black ears alert, sincere lime-green eyes wide as the world.

Comments

[moon_custafer]

It really *doesn't* feel like a year

[sovay]

It really *doesn't* feel like a year

I had trouble all year believing in last year and I still do.

*hugs*

[thisbluespirit]

*hugs*

[sovay]

*hugs*

*hugs*

[newredshoes]

Such an excellent guy, and always, always a dear part of your life. ♥

[sovay]

Such an excellent guy, and always, always a dear part of your life.

*hugs*

[theseatheseatheopensea]

It doesn't feel like enough time to accustom to the absence of cat.

I agree, it never does.

*all the hugs*

[sovay]

I agree, it never does.

*hugs*

[selkie]

*hugs* Still not fair. And the unrealness of current time doesn't make that easier.

[sovay]

Still not fair. And the unrealness of current time doesn't make that easier.

*hugs*

[sholio]

*hugs*

[sovay]

*hugs*

*hugs*

[yhlee]

Thinking of y'all.

[sovay]

Thinking of y'all.

*hugs*

[umadoshi]

Oh, darling beastie. How can it possibly have been a year?

*hugs tight*

[sovay]

Oh, darling beastie. How can it possibly have been a year?

*hugs*

[minoanmiss]

raises a light to his memory

[sovay]

raises a light to his memory

*hugs*

[pameladean]

So elegant and sproingy! *hugs*

P.

[sovay]

So elegant and sproingy!

His proud pigeon breast!

*hugs*

[gwynnega]

I wish Autolycus were still here with you. ::hugs::

[sovay]

I wish Autolycus were still here with you.

I am wearing my T-shirt with his name on it.

*hugs*

[asakiyume]

Mint and rhubarb are good plants for a wonderful cat. Mint for tenaciousness, rhubarb for generosity and danger.

Sending love <3

[sovay]

Mint and rhubarb are good plants for a wonderful cat. Mint for tenaciousness, rhubarb for generosity and danger.

Thank you for that herbal language.

Sending love

*hugs*

[rachelmanija]

Such a beauty and a personality. It really doesn't feel like a year.

[sovay]

Such a beauty and a personality. It really doesn't feel like a year.

It doesn't.

*hugs*

[regshoe]

*hugs*

[sovay]

*hugs*

*hugs*

[lokifan]

Sending hugs.

[sovay]

Sending hugs.

*hugs*