The Fox and the Chanticleer
They wake
to the spraking
of sparrows, the gloop
of early morning light,
when the first minutes
of a certain future
seem blissfully unclear
and the fox
resplendent
in green hunting-check
waits
for the chanticleer
to rise the sun,
knowing
that handsome is
as handsome does
and patience,
however grey,
will always
outshine pride.
Maurice Devitt is a graduate of the Poetry Studies MA at Mater Dei and in 2012 he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, runner-up in the Cork Literary Review Manuscript Competition and short-listed for the Listowel Writers’ Week Poetry Collection Competition. He has had poems published in journals in Ireland, England, the US, Australia and Mexico, and is working on a first collection..