View, Spring Afternoon

The mountains across the way

curve like the long back

of this black cat, reposing

beside me in the sun.

Long black lazy curves

of sinuous back

and the hump of the head

with one pointed ear jutting.

Long hazy curves, blue-grey,

of somnolent mountain

with, at one end, a small hump

and an even smaller point.

31 Poems in 31 Days (Poewar / Writer's Resource Center). Prompt: Write a poem that follows the three basic rules of the Imagists:

1. Direct treatment of the “thing”, whether subjective or objective.
2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.
3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome.