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John W. Sexton (Ireland)

Fox
 
With food I refuse to discriminate:
the river does for me, I need no cup;
the beetle shares its fate with the rabbit,
I separate death from life with one snap.
And more, even on the odd occasion
I have been known to risk the hedgehog’s spine.
I am the rancid fire that lights the earth.
I am copper that knows no verdigris.
I steal the newborn from the throes of birth,
I am the farmer’s springtime misery.
I root the earthworm from the dripping soil.
Against me nature’s force cannot prevail,
as I, drawn by hunger’s relentless pull,
tie the deception of night to my tail.
 
 
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