Cat Paws

Poetry drips from cat paws Out of drowsy sonorous sleep Through the green slit Of a blinking eye That alone shows a profound Consciousness Of environment, and world Creeping up in its fawn colored grass To pounce from nowhere. This cat that I cannot surprise Takes me like play rag Toy or rat In its dripping mouth And I going limp I have heard the dog moaning too While she walks above the roof Looking down with a subtle smile. The dog curls on the mat Ignoring the majestic movements I cannot shake the claws. Cougar slinking through crevices Of boulders forgotten by flood Puma leaping through the fluid light Panther crouching At the edge of night Tiger forever burning bright Lion in the caterpillar stage There is a story in every rage Cats cuddly cute unwind Into vivid sheets, poetry dripping From their tender paws.