~ Delta Poetry Review ~

Paula Reed Nancarrow

The winter I lived as a fox

After Pippa Little

My home was a hollow trunk

beyond the city lights

The sparks from my tail

as it skimmed the snow

set the northern sky on fire

By that glow I found a mate

We were each other’s earth

needing neither skulk nor leash

to raise our kits. All my desire

was animal pure. All my cunning

bent on their survival. Nothing

confused my hunger or my love.

Paula Reed Nancarrow’s poems and flash fiction have appeared in BlazeVox, Green Hills Literary Lantern, I-70 Review, Sugar House Review, The Southern Review, and Willow Springs, among other journals. She lives in Minnesota. Find her online at paulareednancarrow.com.