Chamnongsri Rutnin (Hanchanlash)
David Mark, Pixaybay
It was an unacknowledged bond that I established
with the surreptitious woodland fox
Surreptitious to others - that was -
but never, never to me.
For three bonding seconds on that first encounter
he deigned a lordly look
and, finding me wanting,
showed me back-view of the brush-tail
and vanished in the underbrush
of the chocolate-brown embankment
where the bowing ferns flirted with bashful herb roberts
It was such that our roads would often cross
in that verdant winding lane
I, pacing my measured meditative path
to the salubrious monastic meals
He, a russet lightning flashing across
to his fares of farmhouse delicacies
So, daily we plied our gastronomic journeys
in our different ways