Urban Fox by Threetails (critique requested)

In the lamplight's glow, as the city slept,

Out from the safe old shelter, into the streets

I strode, with silent footfalls searching,

My needs simple, my hunger deep.

You crossed my path, flitting,

Floating over macadam,

Flowing over a wall

But for one moment, you paused.

And in your eyes I saw it,

That same hunger, deep and wild,

And I knew, ere you slipped into the shadows

That we were too alike.

We twilight hunters two, each seeking,

in the gray pre-dawn our quarry

Did but for one passing moment

Smile upon our kin!

Urban Fox (critique requested)

February 18, 2013 at 05:44:08 UTC

From 2003-2005, while living in London, I became very familiar with the city's famous urban foxes.

I still have fond memories of going out late in the evening or early in the morning, when hardly anyone was around. Except, of course, the foxes.

The experience stayed with me all these years, and became part of who I am today.