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The Minx

November 21, 2019 Posted by Sandra Gould Ford WS Stars Journal-Poem

by Sandra Gould Ford

Why didn’t she turn white? And what was she anyway, that sleek, furry black creature … a small animal, tail as long as she … seen for barely a moment on slabs of ice and snow beside a rocky stream?

I thought her kind turned white to match this icy world. Did she come from a clan where that evolutionary device was extraneous? Did her folk get along just fine and elegantly sable against green shoots and daffodils, maple roots, apple blossoms, pine cones and pumpkins?

Perhaps she and those like her had no reason to disguise. Generations after generations, they survived. In a world occasionally stainless steel, silver and ash white winter, they thrived. They’d found no reason to bleach a single and richly black hair.

Originally published in heart Quarterly.

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Sandra Gould Ford is an author, educator and former steelworker who presents arts experiences to encourage, refresh, enrich creative thinking and inspire. She belongs to the Author’s Guild and Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Her first novel was published by St. Martin’s Press. Sandra has won several writing awards and fellowships along with founding an international literary magazine and establishing a writing program at a mega-jail.

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