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By
Penn Kemp
Hold On You
The young Fox is caught
by the fence, though his
wiser grandfather easily
escaped. Excitedly, we
approach to band his leg
while we have the chance
so as to track his moves.
Naturally, he scratches and
bites, snatching his leg free.
Despite a confused kerfuffle
we manage to tag and release.
Our fox fast as can be blurs to
butter as tiger melts into ghee—
dashing between spaces, real or
phantom reflection from global
stories stored over millennia in
back of brain for camp fire tales.
Mary McDonald photo
Penn Kemp
Penn Kemp is an activist Canadian poet, playwright and editor. Her latest works are Local Heroes, and the forthcoming Fox Haunts. Recent books include Barbaric Cultural Practice and two anthologies edited, Women and Multimedia and Performing Women. See www.pennkemp.weebly.com.
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