BIG CAT

BIG CAT

big cat, little cat,
let us not dance around this;
I will touch you regardless,
more than brush your fur

seeing yourself
slink right past me:
                                as if!

little cat, big cat
those eyes at night
I can tell how
keen they are to leopard me

look here
      Mrs Sabre-toothed
all these love wounds
where you nibbled

were it not for love
and due caution
        you could well have
severed an artery

nestled between
your two paws, soothed
by your purring,
all that
is ferociously sweet
about you

me and all my poems
bleeding out