Leaning The pounce-ready cat leans toward the creek bank like a sun-lusting cactus. Both bend toward a tasty future--sun's sugary benevolence, mouse’s bone-streuseled protein. Blacky’s pose--bold-face comma--overlays Spitzweg’s painting--The Cactus Lover-- on my memory’s reel. This moment--the “stop” in “stop motion”--is the yeast I reach for in this poem’s brewing. Nancy K. Jentsch Nancy K. Jentsch’s poetry has appeared recently in Thimble Literary Magazine, Tiferet, Zingara Poetry Review and in numerous anthologies. In 2020, she received an Arts Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her chapbook, Authorized Visitors, was published in 2017 (WordTech Communications) and her writer’s page on Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/NancyJentschPoet/.
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