still knitting

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained - not shown - yet always ready.

Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities

cat cage IV:

i want to
grind you into a fine powder and shove you up my nose
keep you in a silver dish by my bedside and consume you
in small spoonfuls day and night electrifying the wet parts
in my head's guts from the inside sparking greedy desire
insatiable gnawing motivating me headlong inevitable into
spectacular disaster.

cat cage III

defer defer and when and when soon soon soon prolong draw out put off put off wait and wait and wait and wait and want and wait hungry feral lightning chest draw it in control control patience hunger stand and wait it out and still be still and wait for when the waiting's done wanting what's waiting past close horizon.

cat cage II

"You mustn't give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they're strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky."

cat cage

tiger pace starving cage froth froth twitch pace gleam gleam heave twitch turn twitch shallow in-out dull mange devil eyes wear down heave flesh taut flesh pace pace turn twitch turn famine and famine and famine and famine broke claws iron light dark light scrape chip ding click click click dirt air in-out in-out corner corner corner corner pad flick low flick blink
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sphinx

throat
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blink froth

twitch

fingers bars
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fingers bars
twitch

gaze

fingers bars

fingersbardsfrothteeth
redandredandloudANDLOUDREDLOUD

fingers mouth

twitch gleam red

blink still

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