proof that if you stop to write that single impression, a poem will eventually emerge…
Draped (working title)
You are the cat whose claws won’t retract
hanging
from the drapes. In the living
room there are windows like fish tanks.
For years you have lived on a corner.
People you know have to pass by,
have to watch
your perpetual swim.
Long maroon curtains, pale as blood
from a hooked fish. This is the fabric
that refuses to shield
you from winter’s freeze. Slight.
Insubstantial. You whittle your cold bones
until you are a slip, slide
inside the narrow rod space,
hold up
what threatens to take everyone down.
jillypoet 
Oh, but how I like the personification of the drapery.
(And how you have gussied up the blog. Nice template! Yummy.)
hi deb! makes you think of sushi, right? 🙂
i love all the fish stuff in this: “blood from a hooked fish” and “perpetual swim” and “windows like fish tanks”!!!
not too fishy? i always think of pink floyd when i start likening windows to fish tanks.
Nothing wrong with fish & Pink Floyd.
I’m confused about if it is the fish or the draperies that I’m looking at, perhaps drapes with with fish, or a fish tank with curtains. Either way it’s a nice mish-mash of images & somehow I get what’s going on. Is it cold out there?