Our cat brought home a pipistrelle, <br />Intact but traumatized. <br />I held it up to fly away, <br />It would not leave my hand. <br />Its breast was warm against my palm, <br />I felt its beating heart. <br />So strangely intimate it seemed <br />That moment when two creatures met, <br />The one so large, the other small.<br /><br />Pete Crowther<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-pipistrelle/
