Cat City Poems

Talking to people
Circles of fear
Straight lines and queers
The conscious mirror drops narrator's tears
Never forgetting the bird with transparent  wings
Zombies walking in and out of...

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Life is quite good
-indoors in Inwood.
It’s uptown Manhattan
at the northern tip
-the northern tip is
the tippity-top,
where the kitty cat 
Calvin loathes to stop 
-cat napping.
Curled in...

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I'm a cat and city girl now,
Enroute on transit doing a twirl.
...

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In me, is my strongest  part
...My heart...
It is made of stone
From time alone
Stronger than bone
Super dented Super man
Of the world I'm not a fan
I...

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Bodega cat crept to the curb
And crouched down by a car,
His ins and outs encouraged 
By a door that’s left ajar.

He stared intently underneath
The chassis,...

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as cardinals nest
lost within the red maple…
                  ...

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beside the dirty wall there was a shadow,
the signs painted by some graffiti artist
made even less sense in the dark.
lying on the damp floor was...

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It is a plant’s life.

Up in the continuous night, I saw a streak of light
a dying comet’s last hurrah.
Bedroom in darkness couldn’t sleep too much...

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Winter Bites It

The streets are silent
there is no rush hour
no back-up in the William’s tunnel
no bumper to bumper
36 minutes to the Braintree split
The sound of...

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In Gentilly she reigns as Bastet, the daughter of Ra,
An unrepentant drop of golden sun. 
Then come some rascal Baphomet, an outcast by law,
A desperado...

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The expectant morning's
snow frosted tree peeks through slats.
The half-blink of the cat.

The right eye is murky,
reflects a brown yellow sheen.
My brown-eyed girl song.

The mid-winter clouds
view...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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....in the times of witch hunts (of one sort or another) cats were suspect and
    maybe some opposed the hunt and dared...

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Take heed of the roar of the law
There is always a crouching patrol
Safety is on your turf and in your lane
Guard your territory with your...

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Tufted grass edged the trails
disappearing into white birch and maple.
The warnings were wasted
for children are fearless.
The old dog followed warily.
We heard it first
the chittering of...

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