Catastrophic - for Kathy Van Kurin

So wondrous is the shape unfolding

Mysterious has nothing matching

Every stretch a predatory warning

To each prey or friend in passing

 

Lethal innocence can be charming

And beauty so dangerously alarming

Predatory is this creature’s cunning

Arrogance without a fateful warning

 

In a coat so fine as of woven wine

A paradox of sleekness and shadow

Surveys the human lacklustre landscape

Purring charm and lethal right to swallow.

Reviews

[Kathy Van Kurin]

'Catastophic'
Duncan Brown,
Well you've gotten my attention. You are very witty and your way with words leaves me without any, ha ha. I also wondered is this Kathy Van Kurin any one I know. I love to read your writing!
Blessings,
Kathy

[Norman 223]

"Cats, no less liquid than their shadow". Your poem is as sensuous and sinuous as the feline predator
From your title,however, it first appeared that the poem was about Kathy --- most disconcerting....:-))

[Phoebe Taylor]

I really love this piece! The vocab, the structure, the flow; it's very good. Awesome job.

[Duncan Brown]

Thank you and go ahead and review more of my writing.