A Fox in the Dark
memory
free verse
haunting
A Fox in the Dark - meaning Summary
An Unnamed Yearning
The poem describes a brief encounter with a fox that becomes an enduring emotional memory. The animal's sudden appearance awakens an unnamed yearning, suggesting a longing for contact with wildness, mystery, or a deeper aliveness. Though the moment passes quickly, it remains available to the speaker years later, when darkness and solitude recall the same sense of wonder.
Read Complete AnalysesA fox goes by in the headlights like an electric shock. Then he pauses at the edge of the road and the heart, if it is still alive, feels something--a yearning for which we have no name but which we may remember, years later, in the darkness, upon some other empty road.
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