What the Pause Gives
A cat peered out
from under a dark green yew
next to a red barn
set back from the road.
The cat gray and white.
Young. Big eyes.
Quiet. Watching.
A chance stopping
to adjust my bike seat.
In the pause,
I spotted the cat.
It took my stopping,
a shift in time.
I still think
about the cat,
about all the things
we don’t see
when sights are set
and then when stop,
what that pause brings.
…..
This is the title poem from the chapbook What The Pause Gives by Colleen Teasdale Filler (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/what-the-pause-gives-by-colleen-teasdale-filler/
Colleen Teasdale Filler is a retired History and English teacher and a graduate of the Drew University MFA program in Poetry. She currently lives in British Columbia and spends her summers on an island in Maine.
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