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Mar/Apr 2017 • Vol. XXXIX No. 2 • Poetry |

Animal Studies

You read a story about a mouse,
which—in addition to the mouse—
features a woman, a man, and a cat.

The cat reminds you of the moment
in one of The Canterbury Tales,
in which a man, a monk perhaps,

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