Timbuktu! 

Minx, my brazen cat 

Chases shadows of winged birds 

Not  half-Bastet, neither half-Sphinx, she 

Barks questions at blue pigeons, 

Cooing on the eaves, 

Glints ghost-like 

Chrysoberyl eyes. 

Spooky jade winks at midnight: 

When a downy ball swoops startling me,

Tim…you nuisance stop purring, 

Drat your bushy tail! 

Timbuktu!