new from above/ground press: Cat., a poem by Mark Cochrane

Cat.

Mark Cochrane

$3

In the garden, haunches down

like a library lion, Enid

the grown kitten

gently parts

with paw, with claw,

the feathers

on some rare, yellow-breasted

chat, exposing a belly

she tears open

with needle teeth &

gory-sunwarm

                   deliberation.  And standing

at his French doors

Felix is aroused

to a horror.  Loving

birds as he does—

published in Ottawa by above/ground press

November 2012

a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Mark Cochrane lives in Vancouver, practises law, and teaches in the English Department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He wrote Change Room (Talonbooks 2000) a long time ago and “Cat.” not long after that.

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