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  • Re: Daufuskie: Land with a Point (c & c please)

    From will.dockery@will.dockery@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Will-Dockery) to alt.arts.poetry.comments on Thu Sep 24 03:14:20 2026
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    Barbara's Cat wrote:
    Daufuskie: Land with a Point

    Pressed tar now stretches
    where cow carts had rode,
    hauling unstained thoughts
    among once sacred oaks,
    replaced by green mounds
    where care-less players
    bat dimpled moons
    at numerous black holes.
    Now-gone shade walkers
    were innocent as the dirt,
    never seeing a wire glow
    until nineteen-fifty-three
    nor hearing a wire talk
    for nineteen years more.
    That was me, my gift --
    for them to hear distance
    as near, unknowing
    I was but a connection
    to a path of annihilation.

    -- Cat
    [ Cm~ ]



    From the Usenet poetry newsgroup archives, another classic from the one and only Barbara's Cat.

    EfyA
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  • From will.dockery@will.dockery@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Will-Dockery) to alt.arts.poetry.comments on Sat Sep 26 15:17:23 2026
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    Barbara's Cat wrote:
    Daufuskie: Land with a Point

    Pressed tar now stretches
    where cow carts had rode,
    hauling unstained thoughts
    among once sacred oaks,
    replaced by green mounds
    where care-less players
    bat dimpled moons
    at numerous black holes.
    Now-gone shade walkers
    were innocent as the dirt,
    never seeing a wire glow
    until nineteen-fifty-three
    nor hearing a wire talk
    for nineteen years more.
    That was me, my gift --
    for them to hear distance
    as near, unknowing
    I was but a connection
    to a path of annihilation.

    -- Cat
    [ Cm~ ]



    A poem by Barbara's Cat.

    CC: MummyChunk and Harry Lime.
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