Kitty Kollage 3 Breathing. My cat goes up and down on my chest. It is not me that she loves, but my breath. Up and down, up and down, she rides the gentle pendulum, infinitely soothed. If I have to move, have to remove her from my breath, she departs with a grief, and longs to return as soon as I will permit. Breathing. My cat knows what counts; not love, not my smell, not my scratching of her ears: just my breath. Where she lives, where I live. Breathing.