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Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout
An important member of the Language poetry movement on the West Coast, her work has been praised for syntax that borders on everyday speech...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Animals and Pets
27,000 Miles
by Albert Goldbarth
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry]
by Christopher Smart
A List of Praises
by Anne Porter
At the Zoo
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Bats
by Paisley Rekdal
Darwin's Finches
by Deborah Digges
Goldfish Are Ordinary
by Stacie Cassarino
Hawk
by Daniel Waters
Ho Ho Ho Caribou
by Joseph Ceravolo
How Doth the Little Busy Bee
by Isaac Watts
Leda and the Swan
by W. B. Yeats
Mole
by Wyatt Prunty
Mother Doesn't Want a Dog
by Judith Viorst
Nelson, My Dog
by Gary Soto
Ode on the death of a favorite cat
by Thomas Gray
Psalm
by George Oppen
Skunk Hour
by Robert Lowell
The Armadillo
by Elizabeth Bishop
The Bear
by Galway Kinnell
The Caterpillar
by Robert Graves
The Crocodile
by Lewis Carroll
The Dusk of Horses
by James Dickey
The Eagle
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Fly
by William Blake
The Kitten and The Falling Leaves
by William Wordsworth
The Moose
by Elizabeth Bishop
The Paper Nautilus
by Marianne Moore
The Parakeets
by Alberto Blanco
The Return
by Frances Richey
The Snail
by William Cowper
The Tyger
by William Blake
The Windhover
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Turn of a Year
by Joan Houlihan
Wild Gratitude
by Edward Hirsch
Wilderness
by Carl Sandburg
Poems for Times of Turmoil
blessing the boats
by Lucille Clifton
Chaplinesque
by Hart Crane
Identity Crisis
by F. D. Reeve
In a Country
by Larry Levis
O Little Root of a Dream
by Paul Celan
O Me! O Life!
by Walt Whitman
Poet's Work
by Lorine Niedecker
The Second Coming
by W. B. Yeats
The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Related Prose
Poems for Times of Turmoil
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Thing  
by Rae Armantrout

We love our cat
for her self
regard is assiduous
and bland,

for she sits in the small
patch of sun on our rug
and licks her claws
from all angles

and it is far
superior
to "balanced reporting"

though, of course,
it is also
the very same thing.



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"Thing," from Next Life, © 2007 by Rae Armantrout, published by Wesleyan University Press. Used by permission of Wesleyan University Press.
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