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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CLOUD FANTASIES: 1, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN Poet's Biography
First Line: A black enormous cat
Last Line: Of the palpitant, covetous cat.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats
First Line: A black enormous cat
Last Line: Of the palpitant, covetous cat.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats
A black enormous cat
Glides across the heavens.
Sometimes
She angrily humps her back.
Then again
She stretches herself,
Alert,
Waiting to leap.
Does she believe the sun,
That far to westwards
Slowly steals away,
To be a motley bird?
A crimson humming-bird,
Or perhaps
A gleaming parakeet?
Lustfully she stretches herself
Further and further,
And a gleam of phosphor
Darts
Over the dark fur
Of the palpitant, covetous cat.
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