San Diego Writers and Editors Guild

Below is one of my poems published in the 2013 SDWEG anthology, The Guilded Pen, available at http://www.lulu.com.

TO A PUSSYCAT NAMED NYMPHULA

With my compliments

You slink ‘cross the carpet, your sleek fur you flounce.

You spring in my lap and you land with a bounce.

I rub your soft tummy, my kitty I jounce.

Your paws grip my fingers, my palms your toes trounce.

You leap on the bird perch, on Polly you pounce.

You munch on poor Polly. You leave not an ounce.

I shake my head sadly, my kitty denounce.

I’ll ne’er play with you ‘gain, a joy I renounce.

I judge you, Nymphula, my sentence pronounce:

You’ll fry in the hot seat, remorse you’ll announce.

The 2013 anthology includes five other poems and a short-short story I wrote, one about a lesbian.   I am not lesbian, but do recommend  Side Pocket by the gifted lesbian writer, Norma Posy.