Katie the kitten (who died of gangrene) Shalini Rajah
Editor : Niranjana
Layout design : Shreya
Front Cover : Dinika
Katie the kitten (who died of gangrene)
A fl ashing black and orange blur, she leaps, a softness - with -claws . . .
Motherless in the monsoon she had crept in and stayed, snuggling into my heart, lost mother, lost child . . .
Game over, she nudges me seeking a hollowcurve of the neckarmpitcrook of a kneeand suddenly settles to sleep. . .
The pain is over but not the loss. Memory, storing pictures, hurts. But most of all your sweet decay remains the smell of aching love.
Shalini Rajah
