Simon’s Point of View
I keep thinking of him./ Simon was my wife’s cat,/ around long before me,/ and mean as a snake./ He pissed on the couch/ and stared at you with/ diseased greenish eyes

James Valvis is the author of How to Say Goodbye (Aortic Books, 2011). He has published hundreds of poems in places like Anderbo, Arts & Letters, New York Quarterly, Poetry East, Rattle, River Styx, and Verse Daily. His fiction is also widely published in places like Los Angeles Review, Night Train, Potomac Review, storySouth, and Washington Pastime. He lives in Issaquah, Washington.
I keep thinking of him./ Simon was my wife’s cat,/ around long before me,/ and mean as a snake./ He pissed on the couch/ and stared at you with/ diseased greenish eyes