The Best Thing

and most frightening thing about having a kitten is that you sometimes cannot tell if they are dead or simply sleeping.  The kick thrash of panic when they do not stir after you kiss them and put your ear on their belly to listen to them digesting and they do not wake is blown hard and wild by the whip crack of relief when they open their eyes, take a wide yawn, knead the bedsheets like they're rolling dough about to make "biscuits and gravy" and go back to sleep.