Nosey

What sort of tail sits at the end of this muzzle?
It’s so close up to the camera you feel it would bite
if you dared to put your finger on it.

Is it a lion? Aslan?
Or is it simply our cat? Everyone’s cat?
Or not a cat at all?

The nose is curious, asking questions
that only its animal scent can answer.
Nothing is taken for granted.
Interested in both its world and ours,
this nose will go to places that are way out of our ken,
to acquire knowledge that only it can process.

Dangerous velvet.