On the stairs

 

behind the house

sits a girl.

She is drawing a cat,

a black cat with

white socks.

 

But the black cat

with white socks

doesn’t sit still

like the girl

would want him to.

 

She holds on tight

although she didn’t

get very far. His head

she has finished,

but the rest: his body

 

and paws,

she doesn’t get them right.

 

Illustrations, free after various examples of picture postcards

© Joke van der Ark 2012

 

Rhyme  27