Fox

Fox

Coming home from my nighttime walk

I saw a fox run across my yard

and into the darkness

What a sight to behold!

Animals who live amongst us

but not with us

Semi domesticated animals

We feed the birds and squirrels

by the big maple tree

at the end of our driveway

Leave them bird seed

and stale pretzels

and leftover popcorn

from the night before

that was left on the coffee table

overnight

The birds love it

They don’t know any better

They don’t know about fresh popcorn

Hot from the stovetop

Cooked in vegetable oil

Fried up nice and crispy

With a little salt

and a lot of butter

All they know is stale old popcorn

But they love it!

They really do

Each and every Saturday morning

after movie night

we send the birds a treat

And they come flying fast!

The squirrels love the pretzels

They’ll eat them up

In a jiffy

In a heartbeat

Even faster

Watch them come running

down the big old maple tree

300 years old

at least

Enormous

and gorgeous

Red

Orange

Yellow

in the fall

A hundred million kisses

sent up to the heavens

for sending us that big old maple tree

Right there

From 300 years ago

What a sight to behold!

Truly a sight!

That tree

With the poison ivy climbing up the sides

Watch out!

Squirrels don’t care

They come running for pretzels

Fast as can be

Fighting for them

Breaking them like wishbones

Make a wish!

More pretzels please!

I wonder what the fox came for

I wonder what we left out

that he sniffed

a long mile away

and came running