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Vintage Photo: Moses, and Things I Found in the Woods, 1988 and 2006

January 12, 2020January 12, 2020 Bernadette 1 Comment cat poetry, cats, pet loss, poetry, spring thaw

I’VE ALWAYS FOUND the January thaw, whenever it comes, to be a magical time, a gift from our compassionate mother

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Fragments

October 27, 2019May 29, 2020 Bernadette 2 Comments cats, memories, pet loss, poetry, serendipity

I’m not one to think everything happens for a reason, that things align through time to lead one to an

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Once You Were a Stranger

July 14, 2019July 15, 2019 Bernadette 4 Comments black cat, black cats, cat photographs, cat photography, cat photos, cats, feline infectious peritonitis, feline photographs, pet loss, poetry

Once you were a stranger who filled my hand. Now you are a memory who fills my heart. Remembering Lucy.

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Remembering Cookie

February 4, 2019 Bernadette 6 Comments autumn, cat photographs, cat poem, cats, feline photographs, pet photography, photography, poetry, tortoiseshell cats

Shortly after I lost Cookie on February 3, 2012, to honor her I followed through with my idea of recording

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Upon Seeing Himself in a Mirror | Paths I Have Walked

January 13, 2019 Bernadette 0 Comments cat poetry, formerly feral cats, foster cats, foster kittens, poetry, rescued cats

He / doesn’t know, of course, it is / himself he sees, for he / senses himself in a different

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Vintage Photo: An Old Memory, Perfect in Its Imperfections, 1983

December 8, 2018 Bernadette 0 Comments an old memory, black cat looking out window, cat christmas cards, cat looking out window with snowflakes, christmas cards, christmas cards with cats, poetry

I took the photo in 1983, just a few months after I got my first camera and I was only

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Poem for Sunday: Overheard in a Thrift Shop

September 2, 2018 Bernadette 0 Comments overheard in a thrift shop, poetry, rescue story, thrift shop

This was a conversation between two people which I overheard, secretly taking notes, as I was browsing the overcrowded racks

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Once You Were a Stranger

July 10, 2018January 28, 2019 Bernadette 2 Comments black cat, black cats, cat photographs, cat photography, cat photos, cats, feline infectious peritonitis, feline photographs, pet loss, poetry

Once you were a stranger who filled my hand. Now you are a memory who fills my heart. Remembering Lucy.

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Things I Found in the Woods, Poetry, Loss and Love

April 22, 2018 Bernadette 0 Comments cat poetry, cats, pet loss, poetry, spring thaw

Things I Found in the Woods Dedicated to Moses, the most gentle, loving being I have ever encountered. Tiny rivulets

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Another Love

April 3, 2018April 3, 2018 Bernadette 6 Comments cats, poetry, rescued cats, tortoiseshell cat, tortoiseshell cats

Your first night out of the foster room you were waiting for me on the bed as if you’d anticipated

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