Transformed Creatures

You have a strange pet —
one eye is a cat’ s, the other a sheep’ s.
Yet, it won’ t socialize with felines,
will attack any flock.
On moonlit nights,
it wanders on the roof.

When you’ re alone
it will lie in your lap
preoccupied, slowly studying you
until — on its face — a challenge.

Translated from the Chinese