Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a kenning poem. I ignored the part about ‘kenning-like descriptions of [the] thing or person’ of whatever I chose to write about, since the examples I saw of that kind of poem did not look very interesting. Instead, I chose to substitute kenning-like descriptions of the things that appeared in the poem.

Feeding the beasts (a ritual)

Morning
one of the purr generators suddenly appears
demanding action from me
the once-slumbering meat creature

I get up
and go to the vault
where vegetables go to die
to retrieve the pureed-bird cylinder

As I grab a scooping implement
the mobile hairball unit (no, the other one)
begins chattering incessantly
until the future dried canflesh is in its receptacle

at which point she jumps up on top
of the cold soup and film storage device
because her sister, the furry sleep disruptor
beat her to it

(20 April 2016)