david radavich

NINTH LIFE

Let’s try this again.

A cat disappears. Nothing.

Many questions.
A half-empty bowl.

Never knowing
if she was kidnaped
or simply knelt
down under
the moon: Basta!

Too horrifying
to think of theft.

Still we pace
like pall-bearers

when the neighbor’s
tom comes home.

Silence in
the teeth of night.

David Radavich is a socially committed poet, playwright, and essayist.  Among his poetry collections are two epics, AMERICA BOUND and AMERICA ABROAD, as well as MIDDLE-EAST MEZZE and THE COUNTRIES WE LIVE IN.  His plays have been performed across the U.S. and in Europe.  His latest book is UNTER DER SONNE / UNDER THE SUN: German and English Poems (Deutscher Lyrik Verlag, 2021).