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Native Cat
Very Early in the Morning
Indians and sailors
walk our street,
neither greatly improved
by drink.
The Indians stalk
like tall cats
passing our garden.
Good morning, I say.
They don’t look back.
My children gawk.
— from A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth, A Narrative Poem by Penelope Scambly Schott (Turning Point, 2007). Reprinted by permission of the author.
["Very Early in the Morning" is one section of Schott's booklength poem about Anne Hutchinson. In this episode, she has just come to Massachusetts Bay Colony from England. More samples from the poem can be read here.]
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