Milk ring

Another in the kitten series. 

I wonder if milk rings have another name. I wonder if they could be marketed as cat toys, perhaps sold in containers of six or twelve. I wonder when kittens outgrow milk rings. The grandfather cat used to store his milk rings in his food dish. Perhaps they are always useful, somehow, for something.

For want of a milk ring

The kitten finds more things

To climb,

More things

To push to the floor

The grandfather cat

To annoy

Once again

.

A new milk ring

Is a thing of joy,

A thing be carried and thrown

In the air,

To be rolled on

And rediscovered

To be taken up

Again and again

To hide in shoes

And find.