After reading the prompt today, the last two lines jumped into my head. The rest of the sonnet took its own sweet time. The prompt on NaPoWriMo.net today was “Today, we challenge you to write a poem that centers around an encounter or relationship between two people (or things) that shouldn’t really have ever met – whether due to time, space, age, the differences in their nature, or for any other reason.”
Pillows and Rebecca: the sonnet
one plush and bold from a distant dirt road
one tabby and sleek, from a shelter showed
two cats from two worlds adopted by us
two feline lives and twenty years of fuss
curled up in balls, in two different chairs
private squares of sun on separate stairs
decades of time in the same car or house
no sharing food, laps or the cat nip mouse
oil and water, the tough combination
can’t fully describe this situation
mentos and coke says it more precisely
what happens when noses touch unwisely
effervescence of hisses as they meet
plus an explosion of running cat feet
