Sunbathing

 Sunbathing

 

Possession may be 90% of the law

and staking an early claim

should mean something,

but she threw her weight

around.

 

I had no choice; of course,

I hissed and bared my

teeth. Undaunted, she

plopped her plump body

in the rectangular sun patch.

 

As any younger sibling

would do, I relinquished

the spot and left the bed

to find another, minus

sun, to claim as mine.

 

poem by,

Janine P. Dubik

© 2023

jpdubik@yahoo.com

photo in the public domain