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A four-line fragment moves from an athletic child on stilts to the danger of a cornered cat.

The first comparison suggests precarious balance. The last line asks the reader to watch a side of the cat that pressure may expose.

Four handwritten lines on Wurlitzer stationery move 'Across the sky like an athletic / child on stilts' and then turn to something 'cornered like a cat, and there / is a side of that cat to watch'.

The fragment sets two similes against each other: gawky, precarious grace and a trapped animal's latent danger. The last line turns description into a caution to keep watching what pressure may bring out. It reads like a character note jotted down for later use.