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  1. A poem I thought you’d like, by Rachel Hadas.

    October Cats

    One is the color of graham crackers and milk;
    cornbread with butter and honey;
    a stack of pancakes drenched with maple syrup;
    peaches and cream (is anybody hungry?).
    The other’s tiger markings, gray and white,
    are lit like alabaster from within,
    foxy, rosy, ruddy; dusky blush.
    Who would have thought we were so famished for
    the tawny, the caressable? No longer
    now splayed out along the floor for coolness,
    they reconfigure for the coming season
    into shapes of meatloaf, tugboat, owl.

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