Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness.
My lover, my friend, my slave, my toy, says
the cat making on your chest his gesture of drawing
milk from his mother’s forgotten breasts.
Let us walk in the woods, says the cat.
I’ll teach you to read the tabloid of scents,
to fade into shadow, wait like a trap, to hunt.
Now I lay this plump warm mouse on your mat.
You feed me, I try to feed you, we are friends,
says the cat, although I am more equal than you.
Can you leap twenty times the height of your body?
Can you run up and down trees? Jump between roofs?
Let us rub our bodies together and talk of touch.
My emotions are pure as salt crystals and as hard.
My lusts glow like my eyes. I sing to you in the mornings
walking round and round your bed and into your face.
Come I will teach you to dance as naturally
as falling asleep and waking and stretching long, long.
I speak greed with my paws and fear with my whiskers.
Envy lashes my tail. Love speaks me entire, a word
of fur. I will teach you to be still as an egg
and to slip like the ghost of wind through the grass.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Unicorn by Shel Silverstein
- By Garpal Stream by Stanley Wilkin
- To Ellen Terry poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Высоцкий – Серенада Соловья-разбойника
- The Shadowy Waters: The Harp of Aengus by William Butler Yeats
- Schoolroom On A Wet Afternoon by Vernon Scannell
- Prologue to Rodin in Rime poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- When and Why by Rabindranath Tagore
- Portrait d’Une Femme poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Mother Ocean poem – Amy E. Johnsen poems | Poems and Poetry
- Happiness by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Bleäke’s House In Blackmwore by William Barnes
- Sonnet 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Высоцкий – В белье плотной вязки
- O Daedalus, Fly Away Home by Robert Hayden
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