The old man or the fox

It's ten to six 

as I look down on

the court 


where the kids 

got shouted at 

for using chalk


An old mangy fox is

braving the sunrise

still skirting around

in  the whiplash of spring

My coffee sunk 

Eyes still a graveyard of crows

Legs like railway sleepers

I wonder if it was him who trampled on the crocuses