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Cat with Corolla and Poem
Photograph by T. R. Williams
From the Back Steps
A bird begins to sing,
hesitates, like a carpenter
pausing to straighten a nail, then
begins again.
The cat lolls in the shade
under the parked car, his head
in the wheel’s path.
I bury the thing I love.
But the cat continues to lie
comfortably, right where he is,
and no one will move the cat.
My own violence falls away
like paint peeling from a wall.
I am choosing a new color
to paint my house, though I’m still
not sure what the color will be.
— Jane Kenyon, from Collected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2005)
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