2 Responses to “Cat in the snow”

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   JMartin March 7th, 2009 at 11:18 am

   So great to read some Coatsworth. She strikes me as someone who, like Max Beerbohm, maximized her accomplishment by viewing the boundaries of her talent with a dispassionate eye.

   At any rate, I always carry The Salt Hay with me, and was pleased to snag some of her work through abebooks. Some Coatsworth for poets:

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   And Your Fairy-Tale Face

   Nonsensical nothings is all that you’re
   good for
   and singing small songs that
   nobody hears,
   and staring at flowers when
   others are busy,
   and talking to cats and rubbing
   their ears.

   It’s a workaday world with
   alackaday leanings,
   and how are you fitted for
   taking your place
   with your moon-gazing eyes and
   your wool-gathering fancies
   and your white-pigeon hands
   and your fairy-tale face?

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   Thanks for the v. interesting site.

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   Tommy March 8th, 2009 at 1:08 am

   Smokey was a lovely if homicidally insane kitty.

   And I recognize that Lego set, too. We lost the instructions somewhere, but that’s some birthday sometime in middle school or thereabouts.