It is a matter of a black cat <br />On a bare cliff top in March <br />Whose eyes anticipate <br />The gorse petals; <br /> <br />The formal equation of <br />A domestic purr <br />With the cold interiors <br />Of the sea's mirror.<br /><br />Ronald Stuart Thomas<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-cat-and-the-sea/