Audrey Molloy
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‘What the Arborist Saw’: a poem by Audrey Molloy
What the Arborist Saw A cat, among the finches, the sparrows and the wrens.A cat, stuck, in the highest fork of a sycamorethe afternoon he scooped her in one fluidmovement into his jacket and kept searching,calling down to the upturned faces of the boys,No sign of the rascal, must have done a runner. He feeds…