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The Eyes of Cats

Gill McEvoy

Chester


The Eyes of Cats


They're wide and pale as stubble fields,
spiked with cruelty;
at their centre black, black hearts of coal,
unreadable.
They haunt the night-time roofs and windowsills;
I bolt and bar the doors,
make all the windows safe,
but still I feel their great eyes watching
like green moons in the dark;
sinister purring troubles my sleep.

Gill McEvoy




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