Compact in the sun

It has been years since I have lived with a dog.  Still... I remember dogs asleep in the sun, sprawled to catch every ray.  The cat, at least my cat, does not sprawl.  Instead he sits... content, compact, a meditation in himself.

The cat

Compact in the sun

Eyes slit

Paws curled under

The picture of peace

In the one patch

Of living room sun

A meditation

In himself.

This is unlike

Sprawled

Dog meditation.

The cat

Compact in the sun

Shows a different

Sort of peace,

Intensely one

With himself.