If you can't find me here Mirror catch my breath Deep in the thick of still All the thirsty beasts come down to drink Water buffers your skin Stone forbids me to come in I taste a ballet in this storm Even as the paper falls It dances And we're big cats pacing fences Wild cats counting inches Hungry seeing hungry Feed on Reassuring Pinches Play something that will sing Wear a porch-face frown Let sun colour us in When just the hand remembers now Water buffers our skin So truly we are untouching Paper leaps it's ballet in a storm Whichever way we fall We're dancing And we're big cats pacing fences Wild cats counting inches Hungry seeing hungry Feed on Reassuring Pinches