Refrigerators are not like alarms
although propositions are tempting.

I am not above challenges
although grey kittens can be notorious
when hackers are around.

Tempests are not like refrigerators
though they come close.

When food moves, you move with it.
When it stops, you die alone.
Your fur moves onto another inventory.

It's tempting to alarm hedgerows
they're full of hackers eating hackers.
The kittens fall about.

Perhaps fur is a price
though it doesn't come close.

Jill Jones

Jill Jones's most recent poetry collection is Breaking the Days (2015).