October 2003, Volume 1, Number 4

Cathy Drinkwater Better Cathy Drinkwater Better is the author of 30 published books, including three collections of poetry; her poems have appeared in journals in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, and Japan. Better’s long-running and award-winning humor column appears monthly in magazines published in Maryland and Pennsylvania. As Cathy Walker (her married name), she edits The Medical Bulletin, a group of newspapers for physicians in the Maryland, Washington, DC, and northern Virginia areas. just inside the wood line bones of a fox bleached clean first cool morning… marigolds spill over the whiskey barrel’s rim flash-flood crawl… --------lightening surges --------against the windowpane lunch date she brings out photos of the house’s disrepair morning sun through trees the crow’s wings glisten black deserted churchyard a praying mantis clings to the cemetery wall dry leaves skitter across the planks— tomorrow’s storm aroma of biscuits in the night-dark kitchen my silent footsteps morning mist… into the woods the feral cat

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