Academic journal article et Cetera
Three Poems: On the Phenomenon of Communication across Time and Space / Our Impregnable, Uncommunicative Cat / the Rainbow Promise (on the Integrity of Territory)
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ON THE PHENOMENON OF COMMUNICATION ACROSS TIME AND SPACE
Our minds (yours and mine)
meet
in the
now
of this very line:
Our thinkings intertwine
though
we have never met!
And indeed I may be dead, although
you
cannot be (not yet).
Nevertheless, from as far away as even beyond the grave, I conduct your eyes (ears?) (mind?) with these easily-tumbled words balancing like expendable birds on the tightrope of your
brief
attention.
OUR IMPREGNABLE, UNCOMMUNICATIVE CAT
Our impregnable cat,
Protected (also) from fleas and feline distemper,
And provided with ample shelter and delectable foods,
Our cat (relieved of procreation)
Who lives primarily to eat
And knows at whose door her bread is buttered -
Dropped out of sight -
Inexplicably was gone -
For days -
Apparently for ever -
Then reappeared,
Stepped back into line as if not a single beat had been missed-
And would not, could not, and will not EVER tell us where she had been. …