POEMS, POETS, RHYMES AND POETRY

Yay Friday! April 11, 2008 by Stefanie Blackie in Antarctica snips from the poem by Margaret Atwood My sister phones long distance: Blackie’s been put down. Incurable illness. Gauntness and suffering. General heartbreak. I thought you’d want to bury him, she says, in tears. So I wrapped him in red silk and put him in the freezer. Oh Blackie, named bluntly and without artifice by small girls, black cat leaping from roof to roof in doll’s bonnet and pinafore, Oh sly fur-faced

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