“Sister Cat” by Frances Mayes read by Sher Schwartz

September 15, 2025

“Sister Cat” by Frances Mayes read by Sher Schwartz

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4 responses to ““Sister Cat” by Frances Mayes read by Sher Schwartz”

Anonymous

September 15, 2025 at 8:21 am

Wants
Desires
Dissatisfaction
Longing
Awareness- Consciousness
Presence

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1. Sher Schwartz
  
  September 15, 2025 at 9:00 pm
  
  Thanks for listening and posting your response…unending longings seems the place humans find themselves in…
  
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Sher Schwartz

September 16, 2025 at 11:51 am

A reader from the Oregon coast:
For me the last line
“World beyond this one, she cries” infers a specific lack humans face everyday…despite having food (some humans), despite having shelter (some), despite having autonomy (some) our world lacks, lacks something, lacks a thing we cry for. Peace?

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1. Sher Schwartz
  
  September 16, 2025 at 11:52 am
  
  Thanks you for your comments! In (some) cases peace fits for me –here–too …
  
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“I’m a retired Humanities professor, published essayist, poet, painter, singer, and old-time fiddle musician living on an historic two-hundred-acre farm in Eastern Oregon. I plant gardens for pollinators and revel in insects, bird dogs, donkeys, goats, cats, and American fantail and roller pigeons. My lyric landscapes are oak savannah, prairie, and riparian. Writing poetry gives me a way to express and question the rhythms I hear. My chapbook The Beautiful One’s Ark (2024) is available through The Poetry Box and online bookstores. Sher Poetry celebrates poetry as an oral language art. Each week I’ll share a poem from some of my work or from that of other poets who I love to hear.