Contributor: Donal Mahoney

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Two black cats
come over the fence
this morning

circle each other
all over the yard
hissing and leaping

into a ball
rolling like sagebrush
into the pool.

I fish them out
with a trout net.
Two wet mops

lie
in silence
drying on the lawn.


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Donal Mahoney lives in St. Louis, Missouri.