The Mag - 6 July 2014

What your mind knows, your eyes can't always see.

THE MAG

Tess Kincaid has delivered a fire-cracking photograph for our prompt this round. 

SAM THE CAT

Young Gideon I'll be damned.
You always had a cozy way 
of cradling a cat
even a stray.

It's senseless to read your mood
your shuttered eyes of black shields 
shares my reflection -

And yet

Exposes you not.

How rude!

Your head's somewhere else!

It's always that way-

With you.

I'm dumbfounded. All clammed up.
Your wide open stare 
screams a peculiar stiffness.

And yet

I long for your breath

On the back of my neck.

It's madness

I know.

I care for you-

Beyond the depths

Of friend or foe.

Snappy synopsis -

You dig me too

I know.
As for you, Sam the Cat- 

Scram for now!  

Gideon is all mine -

for now.