Feline Farewell
Caught between two worlds,
one paw here, one paw beyond,
she teaches me her life skill class.
It’s not time for questions,
or the time to make up answers.
I’m her witness now,
her student.
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A version of this poem was published in Threnodies: poems in remembrance/ Codhill Press, 2016
Laurence Carr is the publisher of Lightwood. HIs books include The Wytheport Tales; Threnodes: poems in remembrance; Paradise Loft, Pancake Hollow Primer; Traverse; and strides: reflections on 6 acres. With Codhill Press he edited and co-edited four anthologies: Riverine; WaterWrites: A Hudson River Anthology; Reflecting Pool: poets and the creative process and A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley.
Poems and fiction have appeared in Burningword; Cloudbank; Moonlighting; Caesura; The Waiting Room Anthology; and Chronogram, among others.
Lightwood 
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