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Jaguar

Jaguar – you know just who you are
Silence sits in the forest of the night
A movement, a sigh, catches your cat eye
You hold all that is other and aware
To see you in this moment is to die
To see at long last the last of the light

Eyes glazed like the cats by Circe’s bower
Where men are pigs and become men again
Mandrake gives us the resistant power
Here in the dream of everlasting rain

Divine vine cat look down from your god height
Give us the eyes that will give us new sight