The Coyote's Lament

Cat I

the cold light of stars

pulsing in the winter night

                    cat in the garden

prowling

squirrels sleeping in the elm

                    slow-hearts

beating in the cold

ice covers the shallow pond

satellites twinkling up-above

captured in the frozen mirror

rabbit,

thumping hard for home

          cat claws rake the burrow

                    cottontails

in the snow