American Life In Poetry
May 30, 2019
Austin Smith lives in rural Illinois and is an acute observer of the world at hand.This poem is from his book Flyover Country, published by Princeton University Press.
Cat Moving Kittens
We must have known,
Even as we reached
Down to touch them
Where we'd found them
Shut-eyed and trembling
Under a straw bale
In the haymow, that
She would move them
That night under cover
Of darkness, and that
By finding them
We were making certain
We wouldn't see them again
Until we saw them
Crouching under the pickup
Like sullen teens, having gone
As wild by then as they'd gone
Still in her mouth that...
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