Accompaniment

Here's day one's submission of NaPoWriMo (a poem a day for the month of April in honor of National Poetry Month). I had help today:

Accompaniment

April 1, 2013

You sit at my elbow,

your back to me, absorbed -

gazing out the window

as I pluck at these keys like harp strings

laboring hard to create a melody of page-symbols

that sounds as natural and as rhythmic as your purr.

You’ll soon look at me over your shoulder

as if to ask, “How’s it going?” or more likely, “You done yet?”

Then a dramatic stretch and a large, bored yawn,

and step in front of the screen where I write these words.

With indifference you’ll strut to the edge of the desk;

a sniff of feigned interest in the keyboard

will lead to a slow lounging recline upon it, a knowing look at me

and a gentle paw on the back of my hand:

“Here. Type here, on this black-and-white fur.

Play your tune upon the living and breathing,

and flow within the oh-so-soft textures

while I accompany you in silky staccato with

a slight twitch of the tail.”