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The lines compare a child on stilts and a cornered cat, turning skyward movement into a tense study of balance and threat.

The page works through quick, sharp comparisons. `athletic / child on stilts` suggests poise that is also unstable, while `cornered like a cat` brings in danger and alertness. The last line slows the image into attention: the cat is not just trapped, it has to be watched for what it might become.

Four lines of pure image-making: something moves 'Across The sky Like an athletic / child on stilts', then is 'cornered like a cat', with the closing turn warning 'there / is A side of that cat to watch.' The simile shifts from precarious grace on stilts to a trapped animal's danger, and the final line converts the picture into surveillance - the watched thing becomes a thing to be wary of.