”Civilization” is the soothing notion that, in it, natural
callousness has been successfully quarantined.
…………………………………………. —Roshi Bob
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Civilization
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A cat on the pillow of a couch, on the point of a spear, looks out
through windows facing south with the fierce frustration
of an indoor cat who preys through glass
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The squalor of first spring just after the snow has passed
falls under her gaze which pierces its drabness for anything that moves
beyond the breezy animation of pine limbs and spruce—
the quick jerk or dart of something sentient on the loose
which, unlike a couch cat, lives with the threat of spacious freedom,
in the wind, on the prowl without the leash of civil cover,
who scuttles among the hungry with a life as short as its cunning
who’s liberty is only cramped by the cunning liberty of others
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Jim Culleny
4/8/13