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Her Progress

is slow on account of age and astrophysics: it takes her all morning long and half the noon to reach the thirteenth step where, like a game of chess,

the old cat 
waits ... and waits
on the stair-step
for the sun’s
next move

on her routine climb
            to her favorite’s room


About the Author


Gary LeBel is an artist-poet living in the greater Atlanta area whose poems have appeared in journals throughout the USA, the UK, Japan, and India. He believes that art, or anything else worth doing, is a life-long pilgrimage. 


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