(For John and Tina Selley) <br /> <br />Bushy tailed the red vixen in her trust <br />Returns each year <br />Giving birth and raising young. <br /> <br />Cubs bright-eyed and boisterous <br />Full of fun playing on the lawn <br />Guarded by the wary vixen <br />As she looks at human friends <br />Watching from a kitchen window. <br /> <br />She trusts the humans living here <br />Knowing in the back garden <br />Within her Den below the shed <br />Her young are safe from foxhounds <br />And she abides as valued family friend. <br /> <br />She has no terror here of Man's cruelty <br />And when Summer ends <br />Goes away with young all safely raised. <br /> <br /> <br />Note: After returning for five years the vixen's cubs were poisoned by a neighbour. She has not returned since.<br /><br />Colin Ian Jeffery<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/foxes-in-the-garden/
