Cougar
by Joel Glickman
Another cougar was sighted in St. Croix, Dunn, Clark and Bayfield Counties from late 2009 to
early 2010. The cat wasn’t seen again until June 2011, when DNA testing revealed a dead
cougar 1,055 miles away in Connecticut was the same cougar spotted in Wisconsin.
From (Adrian)Wydevan sheds light on cougars in Wisconsin-Celeste Lourigen, Ashland Daily Press,
March 27. 2014
I went a thousand miles
and a little more
just to die there in New England.
At the end my pads were sore
and my fiercely loving feline soul
languished
for lack of my own kind.
Anguished,
bounding through your backyards,
time out of mind,
all along the way
I hunted up what critters I could find.
When you heard this ruckus
in some Wisconsin county,
looked out your kitchen window in the dawn,
our eyes met as I tore and ate my bounty.
I could feel you watching
but you should know that I’d been watching you for longer.
I’m gone now
But then I was the bigger and the stronger.
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