Friedrich Christian Delius

Poem for Cats

Dusk is the hour of cats:
they exhale the day,
slink blackly across the road
play railway trains with their eyes.

Cats carry the moon away.
They speak in images,
laugh at mischief on roofs,
make fun of the aging wind.

Their bird hunt has been postponed,
cats know what's right:
They assault my house of cards,
gulp down my letters unread.

I write: we out to praise
cats at the hour of dusk.

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