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Cats

John Grey

It’s late night in the winter woods
and the cats are on patrol:
bobcats, lynx, maybe even a cougar,
here and there a feral tabby
reverting to its savage mean.

From our cabin window,
they’re prints made by unseen feet,
an occasional rustle of underbrush,
a shriek like something out of Poe.

So close they come,
they must be stalking us:
scratches on the door,
scent marks on the backyard oak.

For us, they’ll be the wounded tiger,
the hungry mother lion.
Dead vole between their feline teeth,
they’ll feast on in our stead.

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