Why Have the Foxes

why have the foxes become so bold let’s find out about things you whispered your breath warm against my ear so long ago let’s find out before they take you from me is it this place and the way you looked at me then I never asked for this but still the red fox crossing commercial street in the daylight must stand for something why have the foxes become so bold in the wilderness behind route six a slender vixen is awakened by her barking kits she draws them close to suckle we saw a white fox last winter on great pond against the snow I thought I knew its secret for that short moment when we were both foxes by the lake with barely an outline Provincetown, winter 2016/2025