When many think of Fox and the Hen, they think of a menacing, older bushy-tailed creature slyly peering into a clucking vivacious home. They presume that the fox with his gleaming eyes gobbles the hens with great haste, causing an abrupt ending to the tale. In such analogy, it is always presumed that the foxes are older men and the hens are young girls. Yet, when I looked at my lover, all I could think of was myself as the Fox. We had met at an art gallery, him sitting quietly on a bench admiring an abstract piece, me admiring him. He had soft green eyes that silently bored into your soul, as though he had the ability to read every thought before the tiny mechanical creatures in my brain had time to type out my next inquiry.
His grey chest hair peeked through a plaid shirt, and his body gave off this overwhelming scent of pine. As my eyes followed the curves of his elderly yet highly virile shape, I could not help but become deeply ensconced within my desire for him. They say that men objectify women, and yet so shamelessly I was coveting him in the way that many men had to my sex for as long as there have been respective sexes. I imagined myself on top of him, gently moving my hips against his. I imagined the soft groans that such movement would elicit, the way that his dick would feel inside of me. Such ideas made my eyes glimmer and gleam, such as a fox's eyes did.
One thing led to another, and we did find ourselves talking. My desire for him was not in vain, for he felt very similarly about me. Yet, the way he looked at me was gentle, and loving. It was the kind of look that informed me about his touch, way before he put his hands on my body. The look was a kind and mischievous one, a look that conveyed everything that I needed to know. We first made love on a rainy evening, with God's teardrops pounding senselessly on his home's windows. He turned off the light, and we inched our bodies closer and closer together under the covers. I had many thoughts in that moment, but the reigning one reflected an idea of the privilege that I was receiving. Countless times had I ran past my parents' bedroom as a young one, and it had become terribly obvious to me that they never engaged in the act that I was about to engage in. They had to have made love once, for I would not be on this earth were it not for their bodily connection, yet it could be argued that their connection wouldn't be called making love but rather having sex. Their bodies connected, yet their souls remained apart.