Touched by Moonlight

Cemetery Cat II
Photo by Katy Brown, Davis


There's nothing
he doesn't know—
the cat on the stove

—Fusei

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Between boiled barley
and romance, the female cat
has grown thin

—Basho

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Out from the darkness
back into the darkness—
affairs of the cat

—Issa

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Now cat's done
mewing—bedroom's
touched by moonlight

—Basho

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—Medusa