WHEN MOI IS A MOM

Here on Galatea where blood-red roses have sprouted, it's the third week of taking care of Gabriela -- she had an ingrown hair, that she worried into a growth that the vet had to surgically excise and whose sutures then got infected requiring a second visit to the vet and since then the whole household has been taking care of her since she's not allowed to move much until tomorrow when her stitches are hopefully finally taken out -- to wit:



That'd be Artemis and Missy Scarlet hovering guard behind baby Gabriela's ass. Moi's avid readers have seen this photo before, but it still captures the moment. We call it recontextualization poetics. Yadda.