yes, now it's good, Gary
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on 21/5/03 5:57 pm, Gary Blankenship at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Strays
>
> Simple barriers of chick wire and bedsprings
> vector dog-runs in a different direction.
>
> Not cats!
>
> Wooden fence, chain-link or picket,
> the common cat ignores barriers
> like ordinary caterpillars,
> their paths criss-cross lawn, alley, garden,
> trails from their home to our hang-out.
>
> We do not feed them,
> and wonder why so many strays
> find our deck the neighborhood place to play -
> mottled, calico, solid black,
> mongrel exotics, taupe and sand,
> a yellow tom and the home cat - tuxedo.
>
> We feed her.
>
> Tigers stalk buttercups hunting roebuck,
> leopards slink through azaleas,
> the home cat, once panther trim,
> watches through the patio door,
> no longer able to protect her territory
> or catch fat mice and fallen fledglings.
>
> Squirrels avoid our trees, rabbits our clover.
>> From the safety of his kennel,
> an old dog once barked at interlopers,
> ignored by most, teased by a few.
> The last tired mutt has left the house,
> and only stray cats and plump mice remain.
>
> Tails taste the air.
>
> IF MY MAIL BOUNCES, MAIL [log in to unmask] AS AN ALTERNATIVE.....April Arthur
> Seeley and Gary poetry poems at:
> http://gardawg.homestead.com/gardawg.html --- Writer's Hood at
> http://www.writershood.com/..... Poets for Peace.... ˇPoemas sí, balas no!
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