Feline intuition

On the blog today are some remarks about a neighbor's cat, Mojo, and a famous poem by Christopher Smart -- as well as the rhetorical strategy of anaphora, Winston Churchill, and the legacy to the Beat poets. All that, and photos of the cat! Look for it at blog.amynelsonhahn.info
Today's poem is:

Idle feline, momentarily

Ever eager toes
now stretch wide in a yawn
as comfort smiles on you;
no snickering prey slips by
to mar your fine repose.
The whiteness fair licked clean
of daily troubles, the vigilant
eyes half-shaded, recondite
and only lifting partial ears
to laud my lowest footstep --
you remain the warrant foe
of erstwhile voles
who lose their bearings on this lawn.

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