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Desire
Possum watches
My cat in the sill,
hunched mean as a fist,
steely as a coiled spring,
studies a foolishness of sparrows
in the tree outside the window.
A pounce in check, she holds…

—Jane Vance, from Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig (LSU Press, 2006)

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Mosaic poet Pam Sexton, in collaboration with Mike Goodlett, is a featured artist in The Shape of Words, the current exhibit at Transylvania University’s Morlan Gallery at 300 North Broadway in Lexington.

Installation artists, book artists, poets and painters join for this Morlan Gallery celebration of the written word as art. This exhibition opens Wednesday, March 7 and runs through Friday, April 20, 2007. Lexington Gallery Hop Friday, April 20, 2007, 5-8 p.m.

Celebrate National Poetry Month on Monday, April 9, 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the Morlan Gallery with The Shape of Words Poetry Reading with Mitchell Douglas, Nikky Finney, Asha French, Jude McPherson, Frank X Walker, and Hao Wang.

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