. . . and then, through a window, Jane saw a fox.
Saw a fox and thought, Foxes are small.
The fox was a dash, a vanishing
fact. You only see a fox.
You only have seen it. Jane at dawn
with a small thought
and a tube of biscuits.
. . . and then, through a window, Jane saw a fox.
Saw a fox and thought, Foxes are small.
The fox was a dash, a vanishing
fact. You only see a fox.
You only have seen it. Jane at dawn
with a small thought
and a tube of biscuits.
Jennifer Habel is the author of Good Reason, winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition. Her poems have appeared in the Believer, Gulf Coast, the Massachusetts Review, the Southeast Review, and elsewhere.