POEM - Cuddly Kitten Day

Silent black disturbance
With a gerrymandering prowl
Bounds in joyous rapidity
Over under around and through
Then drops to his haunches
In furtive surveillance
Ears oscillating
Between pinned back sleekness
And twitching radar alertness
Launches into a graceful leap
Landing back in a crouch
On the edge of my bed
Our eyes meet in locked engagement
His body tightens
Storing reserves of potential motion
The tension mounts
In unblinking serious wide eyes
Then blurred charcoal lightning
Streaks across the textile landscape
On imminent collision course
Pulling up with miraculous agility
Into a fawning purring cuddle
At rest on my barely awake chest
Every breaking morning