Bulat Okudzhava

• Black cat, by Tanya Wolfson
  We've a doorway with a staircase, / Also known as a "back door". / In that place as in a palace / A black cat has set up store. There's a smir...
• The Black Cat, by Keith Bosley, Dimitry Pospielovsky and Janis Sapiets
  Round the back way there is a gate / that bears the sign NO HAWKERS: / here lives — the lord of his estate — / a cat as black as Orcus. Beneath...