I lost mine years ago. It was painful enough. I could melt into tears if I
think about her a little longer.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Renee Ashley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ken,
> Adele Kenny just lost her Yorkie Yates... If you want to drop her a line,
> backchannel me.
> Renee
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Duemer" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [POETRYETC] not a poem --
>
>
>
> "Animals are another of the numerous subjects about which I cannot be
>> critical or 'objective'." --Ken
>>
>> Yeah, goes for me too. We have four dogs in the house. Three are buried
>> out
>> back here by the river where we've lived for going on 20 years.
>>
>> "...the price for loving them..." Yes.
>>
>> jd
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> sharon brogan wrote:
>>>
>>> Spike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Okay, Sharon, if you say so, it's not a poem:-).
>>>
>>> Animals are another of the numerous subjects about which I cannot be
>>> critical or "objective." They have been part of my life on and off since
>>> 1968, and the best part of my divorce was being able at last to get a
>>> cat.
>>> My former wife detested small animals.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I've lost two...the price for loving them...and wrote about the
>>> one
>>> who was put down in September 2006 "after a long illness." As I recall, I
>>> wrote about this: a poet named Adele Kenny in a workshop told us to write
>>> something in negatives. I had not written about the cat (her name was
>>> Pushkin, oddly enough) in the month since she died, and the poem wrote
>>> itself. She asked me to read it and let's just say I didn't exactly sound
>>> like Dylan Thomas.
>>>
>>> CAT ELEGY: YOU ARE NOT HERE
>>> (September 9, 2006)
>>>
>>> While you were dying I stroked your coat.
>>> It was not beautiful, it never was,
>>> but I stroked your coat because it was yours
>>> as years before I healed my de-married self
>>> by stroking that same coat,
>>> crying then as I cried this morning,
>>> by loving you not because you were
>>> my perfect magical healer, but because
>>> you loved me and wanted me now not to hold you close
>>> as I'd held you close, but to let you go
>>> to Outside Over There, but you were not there
>>> and now you are here.
>>>
>>> Adele suggested I could do a lot more with it. I don't want to.
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ken Wolman http://bestiaire.typepad.com
>>> http://www.petsit.com/content317832.html
>>> -------------------
>>> "I have been watching you; you were there, unconcerned perhaps, but with
>>> the strange distraught air of someone forever expecting a great
>>> misfortune,
>>> in sunlight, in a beautiful garden."--Maurice Maeterlinck, "Pelleas et
>>> Melisande"
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Joseph Duemer
>> Professor of Humanities
>> Clarkson University
>> Weblog: sharpsand.net
>>
>>
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