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The big bag theory


When the cat is let out of the bag
all teeth, claw and spit,
it blinks, pupils shrink to pins.
It slips down blind alleys,
fur leeched to the colours of here.
It yowls.
Only those in the way of secrets hear its story.
It tells of the beginning,
how it curled in on itself in the dark
listening to it until it understood
silence, then sound, the roar of light
slashing open the threads
the white throat
of something yet to become