Robert Cording | The Sun Magazine

Robert Cording

Robert Cording wavers between wanting to be a Florida panther and wanting to be the carver who sculpted the Key Marco Cat. He lives in Connecticut.

— From January 2024
Poetry

Key Marco Cat

Legs folded / under its body, / the figure sits / straight up, alert, / an incarnation / of stillness, of eyes / looking everywhere / at once. I look at / this possibility of me/ rooted in the dark, / invisibly still.

January 2024
Poetry

Selected Poems

My son and I are sitting on his back porch, / early October, the gold locust leaves above his barn / giving the morning light something to shine in. / An unfelt breeze makes itself known / when the leaflets shake and shimmer.

from “The Last Day, Again”

March 2023
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