HELP
She won’t
let me out
so I bark
at the coyotes
from behind
the window pane.
I smell them.
They hear me.
—from Rattle #60, Summer 2018
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Alan C. Fox: “Life takes strange turns. With a friend I recently condensed two short stories which I wrote many years ago into two children’s books. Children’s books! Who’da thunk it? Still, for me, poetry prevails.” (web)