friends in the garden

[scrunklebug]

there was a skunk who lived in the forest behind my home.

in the summer.
it visited the garden
and ate the slugs off of our plants.
it even touched noses with my cat.

in the fall,
we would see it go under the baby barn
to dig for worms.

in the winter,
every time it snowed
we would check for new footprints in the snow
we saw raccoon tracks,
deer tracks,
bunny tracks,
mouse tracks,
cat tracks,
but no skunk tracks.

in the spring,
there was a baby skunk who lived in the forest behind my home.