
at night
by Christopher Lloyd
CW: Depictions of sex & violence
sounds like fucking
no like crying he says
the din of foxes inside
each other or tearing
up the garden he is
always shouting she
is always hunched
over in the garden
a fox carcass melted
away I am the cat
ruffled by noise my
whiskers twitch for
her at the window
under the street
lamp I whisper are
you okay she is okay
he says back in bed
I’m that fox and
I’m yowling
Christopher Lloyd (he/him) is currently a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has published widely on contemporary US culture. Christopher’s poetry has appeared in Impossible Archetype, —algia,Visual Verse and elsewhere. He tweets @clloyd9.