Sniffer’s Vacation (2)
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August 26, 2010
HiLobrow won’t be publishing any installments of James Parker’s novel The Ballad of Cocky the Fox this month. Nor will we, this month, publish new issues of The Sniffer, Patrick Cates’ Cocky-related newsletter. Like Cocky, Parker and Cates are British; in August, they aestivate.
Cocky will return on September 2. The Sniffer will return on September 9. Until then, here’s a poem by James Parker.
marriage vows of a vixen (by Nora)
Let no ditch remember you,
no hedgerow keep your trace,
no blade of grass hold the scent of your arse
and no vixen’s heart your face.
And though my love is wifely-warm,
oh let me be content
to see you fly by foxily
and wonder where you went.
Forget me in your fightings
and your triumphs on the town;
so go your weightless, wifeless way
until they bring you down.