don't seem to mind
the frozen
pond.
they land and skid to a stop
until they find
where the water begins
again.
and the fox,
hungry
as always,
skips
on quiet paws
across the ice,
happy
for the short cut.
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- Stephen Chute
- west springfield, virginia, United States
- these are all FICTIONAL stories and characters, with humor and pathos, emotional complaints of the soul and are in no way representative of any real experiences in my or anyone else's life. any similarities are purely coincidental, except for the dog poems.
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