The second cat was suffering from severe dental disease -- her teeth had severe erosion in her enamel, severe tarter and gingivitis -- causing her not to want to eat.
Graham attracted widespread notice with the poems from her second book, "Erosion".
"Reading Plato," a poem from her second volume, "Erosion" (1983), is a partial rebuttal of Plato's theories about mimesis.
She said her project, titled "Erosion," is meant to show the sheer discomfort black women face when their features are fetishized.
"The dramatic erosion of her health and the cruelty displayed against her, all duly documented, left me greatly worried about her physical and psychological well-being, as well as about her personal safety," he wrote.
This was not a malevolent queen but a woman desperate over the erosion of her awesome powers and the kidnapping of her daughter, whom she sees slipping away into the realm of light.
The overall plan at the moment appears to be to parallel Alicia's moral-familial quandary — her affair with Will, after two seasons of faithfulness to Peter — with a similar erosion of her spotless record at the office and in the courtroom.
So, since Susan Smith has chosen a local beach, nicknamed "Glass Beach," her piece with an erosion theme, will be fashioned from native plants she has hardened on the roof of her Manhattan apartment building and snow fencing.
Certainly, I found it very cathartic to try and imagine how my mum might have been feeling as she faced the erosion of her memories.
Theodora's own conversion is not Damascene, but something far more convincing: "no glorious epiphany," as Duffy nicely puts it, "but a slow erosion of her cynicism".
