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Dark Matter: Women Witnessing - December, 2015 Issue #3 - EXTINCTION / DEVOTION
fox is chanting
sparkling scales of fish scattering silt
beaver slick currents
fox conjures
sparks of waves smoothing stones
fox gnashes his teeth
his black mouth open
his teeth so white
I chatter in sleep
They can’t
put his cage
far enough
away from me
In the dark he is the thing moving
I wake
his rattling cage beside me
fox whispering
a harsh wind low
I have opened the cage door
he remains
Fox blood is sour
his small head wounded
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