Kitten

kitten

(3/14/99)

First Place   moon-viewing --   a basket of kittens   on the windowsill                     hortensia andersonSecond Place   summer night   a black cat curled around    her kitten                     Alison WilliamsThird Place   writer's block-   so many paper balls   my kitten lies exhausted                             SueBelow Third Place

so slim...we follow herto her kittens               Hugh Waterhouse 

barefoot -too many kittensin the shoe closet                   hilary tann

kneading dough -my ailing motherremembers the kitten                      Yu Chang

dandelion meadowa kitten practisingthe tiger's prowl                  Max Verhart

taking twice as longto tie shoes now --kittens in the house                     Charles Trumbull

softly falling the kitten playsin new snow               soji

kitten stretches for mother's stepsspring snow               DeVar Dahl

used bookstore -in a bed of LIFE magazinesmewling kittens                 paul m.

death-row kittenhappily playingin a bare cage                Don McLeod

kittensfree to good home another spring                Rob Krevitz         

a kitten in the comforter's foldsupside down eyes                  Paul MacNeil

sipping black tea -between my feetkitten sips milk                   Tore Sverredal   

grasshopper                                 leaping                                                          kitten- Linda Robeck movementin my socks drawerour new kitten                  Joseph Kirschner 

listless kittenfather feeds herwith an eyedropper                     Joann

the wicker basketunderneath the kitchen sink -three kittens entwined                        Timothy Collinson     

thirty years agoher face when I brought homethe kitten               dennis h, dutton       

killing fangsin her mother's moutha newborn kitten                    ebj 

climbing bestsellerson the table--bookshop kittenscopyright 3/6/1999 by Wendy C. Bialek

A brittle leaf fallson the cold ground.  But onlythe kitten looks up.                      Horst Ludwig     

paws looking aroundspontaneously accepted meher blind kitten                  emile molhuysen       

coldest March morningabandoned kitten mewingtramp shares last crust of bread                                    Elaine Cleveland 

curled upatop an unraveled sweaterthe kitten                   Betty

sleepy kittencurled up in a ballof frayed yarn                  Don Wharram

children laughingfather's bleeding facekitten stroked                  paul conneally

NOTE

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