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Tag: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

Two Treatments of an Image

Carl Sandburg wrote this little poem:

images-1.jpgFog

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

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Posted on 11/06/201711/06/2017 by MikePosted in Poetry, ReadingTagged Carl Sandburg, cats, Fog, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Leave a comment

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