Jekyll and Hyde : 20 lines of Blank Verse describing the two sides of a domestic cat’s nature.
Velvet death.
There! In the bowels of the shadows
Cast by shrubs and bushes in the garden.
Silent menace.
Perhaps a hint of movement in a straightened tail;
Muscles taut with restrained energy.
Lightning motion.
A darker shadow elongated in a leap.
Was it seen or just imagined?