cats yowling in the quiet 3 am street


how intriguing to hear in the solitude

of one's own blanketed safety


to hear their distress or danger at such remove

that one could feel the full force


of their cat power whether protecting a litter

or raging in unconquerable hunger


solitary worlds in the night while one sleeps in his







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