Change of Danger
Free from ancestral fear of hooves and hounds,
The urban fox that makes its evening rounds
Along the road beyond the garden’s bounds
Heeds car horns now, not huntsmen’s tinny sounds.
The Fox And Gas
The locals claim it’s most unwise
To seek a quiet drink round here.
They say you’ll watch the bubbles rise
And find they serve a noisy beer.
Jerome Betts lives in Devon, England, where he edits the quarterly Lighten Up Online. Pushcart-nominated twice, his verse has appeared in a wide variety of UK publications and in anthologies such as Love Affairs At The Villa Nelle, Limerick Nation, the Potcake Chapbooks 1, 2 and 12, and Beth Houston’s three Extreme collections. He has been featured in Light. British, European, and North American web venues include Amsterdam Quarterly, Better Than Starbucks, The Asses of Parnassus, The Hypertexts, The New Verse News, Per Contra, and Snakeskin.