The Cape Town edition... Welcome to my ramblings, if you care to read on, you will sooon find that this is mostly an attempt to record the things I'd want to remember one day but probably wouldn't. This of course is due to my absolutely rubbish memory.

Thursday, July 21, 2005

I found it!

This was really frustrating me yesterday, I searched the net completely, I knew this poem was by Simon Armitage but for some reason couldnt find it, anyways I remembered I had it in a book back home, so here it is:

The Fox
By Simon Armitage

Standing its ground on the hill, as if it could hide
in its own stars, low down in the west of the sky.
I could hit it from here with a stone, put the torch
in the far back of its eye. It’s that close.

The next night, the dustbin sacked, the bin-bag
quartered for dog meat, biscuit and bone.
The night after that, six magpies lifting
from fox fur, smeared up ahead on the road

(1996)

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