“ Kuro Neko  “ – Black Cat

INTRODUCTION:

Once upon a dream I stalked the night, elegant in sleek fur, but a Black Leopard or merely a black cat?  / Wrapped with the dark majesty of evening's civility and loss of detail I choose my own way to walk with a purpose.... / While around me taxis moved in increments of snarls while the homeless chose doorways to sit, to stare or to beg or chat / Enjoying their admiration and none of their lack, I moved with stealth, boldly choosing "I' over their need for 'us'./ With whiskers to thrill to the night's enticing siren and eyes that probed the darkness that was a light to me / I moved past the smells of loneliness and homelessness and lost hopes shriveled in the bitter wind-my goal in mind / if not yet in my sight, and I feel the reflective strength of my wild brother flexing our union from every lurking tree / knowledge and cunning, courage and cowardice find means to intertwine, like different shaped leaves on the same vine.

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