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Cat Poems

Our feline friends reveal a sensory, and even spiritual, world beyond the human.

By The Editors

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WHAT THE CAT KNOWS

- February
Margaret Atwood
- A Little Language
Robert Duncan
- The Cats Will Know
Cesare Pavese
- The cat’s song
Marge Piercy
- Cat, Failing
Robin Robertson

HUMANS ARE ANIMALS TOO

- The Perfect Mother
Susan Griffin
- The Orange Cat
Alicia Ostriker
- Cat and Mouse
Ted Hughes
- Adam Waking
Katie Peterson
- Ella Mason and Her Eleven Cats
Sylvia Plath

MISCHIEF AND MAYHEM IN NINE LIVES

- Finding the Cat in a Spring Field at Midnight
Pattiann Rogers
- from Jubilate Agno
Christopher Smart
- Magnificat. Brave Cat at Snifter Fishbowl
George Starbuck
- Another Insane Devotion
Gerald Stern
- Muier
William Carlos Williams

CAT POEMS FOR KIDS

- Little Robin Redbreast
Anonymous
- "Quick! quick! ..."
Anonymous
- "The three little kittens, they lost their mittens,"
Mother Goose
- The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Edward Lear

ARTICLE

- Perdita
Michael Robbins