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  • A Cat Named Lonesome
  • William Virgil Davis (bio)

in memory of Weldon Kees

The cat and a pair of red sockssoaking in the sink was allwe found in the apartment.

In the car, parked carefullyclose to the side of the streetnot far from the end of the bridge,

the keys were still in the ignition.That was it—no note, no wordto anyone. No plans that anyone

knew of. And the day was likemost days in San Francisco,the fog like a lover hovering over.

William Virgil Davis

William Virgil Davis's most recent book is Landscape and Journey (2009), winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize. He has published three other books of poetry, including One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. He has also published half a dozen books of literary criticism, most recently R. S. Thomas: Poetry and Theology. He is Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Baylor University.

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