This is a test entry. 6/13/2020
Family of Felines
7 DecFamily of Felines*
From winter’s Himalayas
to the warm Western Ghats,
I’m the one known as Prakash
the princeling of cats.
I’ve known and loved a myriad,
but I’ll speak of just a few:
The ones most dear to me
I will share now with you.
The blue-eyed was dangerous,
Allied with the night;
The next was more genial
And gentle, and white.
Another was calico,
orange, black & dun
With a toy in each corner
and a mouse on the run.
Siamese accompanied me
When we stepped onto the mall
Along the reflecting pools
Of the Taj Mahal.
There are many dear others,
Too many to say, you see.
And though I am prince of them all
It is they who rule me.
— Bruce Toien
*Play on my family’s surnames: Winters, Katz, Toien (“toy in”), Stept (“stepped”), Themal (“the mall”), White


