I don’t post a great deal because I have been steadily working on a long sequence of poems which has yet to come to fruition. However, I’d like to share a poem that is being published today. …

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No, I don’t write poems about cats. Well, maybe just once. And maybe that one poem has found its way into an anthology … Yes, the fleas were a shared burden but we learnt how to help. Other than th…