This morning, my listener commentary, Country Cats, aired on our local NPR station, WBFO. Here is a photo of our latest cat - Mini, a summer drop-off. His story is in the commentary, but I thought it'd be good to write a poem about him too.
Mini
Photo by Amy LV
We do have our share of well-loved drop-off cats at this point, so please do not bring more. However, if you'd like to be on our list of homes-who-need-cats for future surprises, please let me know.
This week, Tricia's Poetry Stretch at The Miss Rumphius Effect is about eggs. I've posted two poems about eggs at her blog, based on our family's experiences with chickens. You can post an eggy-poem at The Miss Rumphius Effect too...Tricia's sister hates eggs!
National Poem in Your Pocket Day is this Thursday, so if you have not yet chosen a poem to put in your pocket to share on this day, you might want to start looking. Here at poets.org, you can find many ways to celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day. One way to keep poems coming to your online mailbox pocket is to subscribe to Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac.
Now go find yourself a cat.
National Poem in Your Pocket Day is this Thursday, so if you have not yet chosen a poem to put in your pocket to share on this day, you might want to start looking. Here at poets.org, you can find many ways to celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day. One way to keep poems coming to your online mailbox pocket is to subscribe to Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac.
Now go find yourself a cat.
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