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| 'Cat in a bay window' - study for a painting - George Roberts -May 2020 |
What cats do best on winter nights
A window-framed cat sits church yard still
Surveying it's universe from a paw printed cill
Inside is curtain cosy and electric light bright
Except for a silhouette that's bone black as night
For a cat absorbs energy, a fur wrapped black hole
Taking heat from home hearth and burning hot coal
A 'shape-shifting' black body 'lapping-up' incident light
Night envelopes and shields it from mere mortal sight
Like an anonymous sad lover it sings to its mate
As it tiptoes on roof tiles and slides on grey slate
Cat is quick to the chase and first to the bite
Helping hapless small rodents find sudden death in the night.
George Roberts
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