What might keep the cat from returning home? what might the image of a “constellation of fireflies flickering” represent to the speaker?

At cantomundo this year, i had the opportunity to listen to keynote speaker and former u.s. poet laureate natasha tretheway speak about her work and the place of memory in her work. her poems about her mother specifically have meant a lot to me over the years. the poem above, for example, shows how sometimes the things we write about find us, how “material” arises from the immaterial, day to day occurrences.

It   show how would the things we write about find us, how material arise from the immaterial, day to occurrences.