People in Winter

Photo: (c) Barbara Melton

Foxes don’t try to hide what it takes

to live. They see no reason for shame,

and so do their deeds in the bright of

moonlight, sometimes announcing them,

like the vixen did in the meadow two

nights after she took my golden rooster

by the neck.

In winter, there are two thieves:

The fox and the season trying

to steal the fox.

One of them succeeds.

You can’t blame it.

Why do people look upon the angel

in the snow and say they are that?

~ Jamie K. Reaser, Author

Published in Conversations with Mary: Words of Attention and Devotion

Winner of the Nautilus Book Award silver medal for poetry

Many thanks to Barbara Melton for use of the photo

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