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love like foxes

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let us love like foxes love

screeching in the night

let us love like foxes love

hiding from moonlight

they are locked together

in their act of love

with love’s arrows pinned together

coupling foxes cannot move

if man fox rips from woman fox

he might tear out her heart

let us love like foxes love

crying in the dark

don’t interrupt the foxes

in their desperate love play

let us love like foxes love

til our dying day

◄ South with Endurance

Nightmare of the Dancing Cats ►

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sun 29th Nov 2009 15:58

Great poem. Love your empathy with all things. Experienced a similar 'enlightenment' once in Canada's North, when I came unexpectedly upon two huskies in the snow, a male and a female, about to have sex. The female looked almost pure wolf. I paused in sheer interest, ie voyeurism. I tell you, I have never been so 'put in my place' in my life. I locked eyes with the female, and she communicated to me exactly what she thought of me. I backed off, apologizing profusely to her, and walked away, ashamed of myself. I'll never forget her.

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Ann Foxglove

Sun 29th Nov 2009 11:02

Thanks Greg - have corrected it! And thanks for your encouraging words.

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Greg Freeman

Sun 29th Nov 2009 10:44

I really like this, Ann, for its unvarnished urgency, just as I admire another, more humorous poem of yours, Take Me, for its similar mood. The title is almost a pun on your penname. But I'm thinking the word "fixes" in the penultimate line is a mistype? Greg

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