Potential Titles: Cat

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Feral cats in the underbrush - Seth Abramson "The Woods in Concord"

The blue cat of night glides in the grass - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"

Curled up like scared cats in the reeds - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

Cat's whiskers to the east - Mary Jo Bang "In the Quieter Aftermath"

Begins with the sound of a cat - Mary Jo Bang "O Means the Mouth"

Fewer options than you grant a clever cat - Devan Barlow "Dear Charles Perrault"

Grows querulous with unseen cats - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"

A cat's rough tongue scraping land back to waves - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"

The cat expects hard knocks - C.S. Calverley "Sad Memories"

Two black cats and a beaver who eats carrots all day - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"

As of cats that wail in chorus - Lewis Carroll "Hiawatha's Photographing"

Great ghosts shall rise to vindicate the right of cats - G.K. Chesterton "To Enid who acted the Cat in private Pantomime"

The gray fur of a crimson cat - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"

Gilded cats guarding the empty bridge - Jim Daniels "Listening to '96 Tears' by? and the Mysterians While Looking Down from My Third-Floor Window at a Kid Crossing the Panther Hollow Bridge"

Feeding rosehips to the cat - Chris Dombrowski "Koan"

While every wicked little cat its own diversion took - "Fun for Kittens" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

We come like Kittens, and like Cats we go - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

As a Stone Cat should heed a Pebble cast - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

My cats stand watch in the window - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"

As if a cat traversed my path beneath the evening star - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

The cat's in the cupboard - Charles Lamb "Nonsense Verses"

Cat gossips, meeting by moonlight - Lucy Larcom "The Cat's Questions" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

An alert cat leaving nothing to chance - Philip Levine "A Theory of Prosody"

Fire-winged cats that light the nights - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

The black cat family that roamed our alley - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"

To be a cat among the hay - John Masefield "King Cole"

Changed the dream of the cat - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"

Which cats and dogs can read - Marianne Moore "England"

And should the Cat lay siege to them - "The Mouse and the Christmas Cake"

Three alley cats remember - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"

The cat with feathers under its tongue - Mary Oliver "I am the one"

Laced in saber-toothed cats - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"

Crouching like a great cat - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Dark as a stack of black cats - Carl Sandburg "Picnic Boat"

Cats sneered at our pathetic need for feline love - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"

Window-perched cats and foraging chipmunks - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

And the black cat seeks prey - Alfred B. Street "The Bell Owl"

Let their cats go out hunting at night - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"

Walks delicately as a stray spectral cat - Iris Tree "Streets"

With the cat and the dreams of the cat - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"

Reading time in the eyes of alley cats - Emanuel Xavier "Americano"

Cat claws on the heart's tin roof - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"

The shy cat fiddling while Rome sizzles - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"


No one took a cat nap in the shadows - Andre F. Peltier "Christ at the Comedy Store"

Kitten.

Wildcat.


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