Twin foxes today, not quite
…as red as expected, but foxes
…for certain…
…………………Yesterday a possum
…on the window ledge, leaving
…his paw prints on the glass…
Otherwise the usual: white-tailed
…fawns or young does tripping
…like ballerinas in the grass,
…a male wild turkey splaying
…tail feathers in a fan, groundhogs
…and chipmunks in open stealth,
…a pheasant parading like a king
…with seven queens, a skunk
…protected by the private threat
…of stench, a turtle mimicking
…a soldier’s helmet on legs
…and plodding east southeast..
My backyard’s home to all.
Roofed from birth, the turtle
disagrees.
…………………He has no truer
…home to seek than where
…he is no matter where
…he is or where he goes.
If he gets there, he gets there.
If not, he’s there already.