Playing by Paw

In the silence of the house
mid-morning
discordant notes
called from the keyboard
not exactly playing by ear
No, Mario was more
playing by paw
whatever notes his fingers found

September 5, 2008
written at the Agape Café coffeehouse
Wesley United Methodist Church
(one of 24 written there that night)
our kitten Mario and
our Clavinova in the living room
while the girls are at school