Clockwise Cat Strikes Back
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Two poems<br />
By Randi Ward<br />
Foal<br />
A blood bay,<br />
a blaze<br />
smothering<br />
in its grey<br />
horizon.<br />
Afterbirth<br />
Pacing and whining,<br />
the dogs lick their quivering<br />
flews at the clank<br />
of the shovel<br />
scraping<br />
the stall floor.<br />
Author bio: Randi Ward is a writer, translator, lyricist, and photographer from West<br />
Virginia. She earned her MA in Cultural Studies from the University of the Faroe Islands<br />
and is a recipient of the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen Prize.<br />
Ward is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee whose work has appeared in the<br />
Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Asymptote, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review,<br />
The Cortland Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, Vencil: Anthology of Contemporary<br />
Faroese Literature, World Literature Today, and other publications. For more<br />
information, visit: www.randiward.com/about
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