"In the early gloam..."
"Age
Peace, all but quite,
Jeanne talking to her cat
whose eyes are shut,
tail tip stopped, all but.
Pretend sleep
on an uncertain lap
with the familiar voice
quoting cat sense.
Age, that in its clutch
bears the spinal itch,
makes hind-quarters weak
and stomach sick,
also rounds the purr
rounder than ever before,
and brings pretend peace,
peaceful almost as peace."
--George Johnston
“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us.”
–Lawrence Durrell via @svenbirkerts
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