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| A fox in the forest, pen and ink ©jb |
The last time I saw a fox was a couple of
months ago. I was parked in my car in the early hours of the morning. It was
dark and so, so very cold. The street light was showing me the shape of the
road and the concrete gutters seemed to glow silver against the bitumen black.
Everything was still. As if the air had been sucked out of the suburbs. No
leaves, branches or blade of grass moved.
And then there he was. Bounding out between
two trees like he’d always been there. Sure footed yet with a cautious gaze, it
seemed that his amber coat glowed and warmed up the still air around him. He
knew he had to careful, that he wasn’t usually greeted with a happy smile.
Crossing the road in front of me, he foraged around in a bush or two and then
as quickly as he had appeared, he slipped away out of sight.
