Black Cat
by A.J. Huffman
parades before me and I feel hairs
on the back of my neck begin to rise. Instinctively,
I am uneasy traveling in direct proximity
to this otherwise cuddly
companion.
I mock my own
misgivings, make mental jokes about witches and midnight
broom rides until apprehension
passes.
I shake
my head in amazement that as an adult I still hold
to childish misgivings.
Looking down, I am not
surprised to discover my feet avoiding the cracks.
A.J.
Huffman has published five solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various
small presses. Her sixth solo
chapbook will be published in October by
Writing Knights Press. She is a
Pushcart Prize nominee, and the winner of the 2012 Promise of Light Haiku
Contest. Her poetry, fiction, and
haiku have appeared in hundreds of national and international journals,
including Labletter, The James Dickey
Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, Kritya, and
Offerta Speciale, in which her work
appeared in both English and Italian translation.
She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.
www.kindofahurricanepress.com