I sit in the house <br />And I smell the flowers <br />As the cats <br />Stalk around my book <br />That stands by a clock <br />Supported by a statue <br />A statue <br />Of a tiny house <br />With a tiny clock <br />Shadowed by flowers <br />And a threatening book <br />About the cats <br />The cats <br />That stand still as a statue <br />Around the book <br />About a house <br />Filled with flowers <br />And made of a clock <br />A clock <br />With painted cats <br />And frozen flowers <br />By a statue <br />Of a house <br />And a book <br />A book <br />About a clock <br />With hands as big as a house <br />And the cats <br />Sniff around a statue <br />Of some flowers <br />Some flowers <br />Stand in a vase on a book <br />About a statue <br />Of a clock <br />Painted with cats <br />In a house <br />(Envoi) <br />The flowers stand by the clock <br />Next to the book about cats <br />In the statue of a house<br /><br />Charlotte Pinkney<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sestina-12/
