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WolfFoxEggMoon
Diana S. Adams
art by Alayne Spafford
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Wolf Plates
Autumn-oiled, evidenceof another portal, he eats
a patch of beets, our knees knock-
knock, our arms form little Vs
to hide our trembling
interiors, our voices escape
from their carpeted compartments. Wolf-
love
(lunar, terrestrial)
torpedo-boats through nights thin
tunnels, green-dark rooms
connect with water, wiltedlight, pepper smells of earth.
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Hes tired of iron and hides
a delicate cabinetry. Rub each joint.Tend each raggy hair.
Absence, death, guilt over family:
wring out the various sadness.He will appear indifferent,
looking for tufts of forest.
Place him on a slopeof road. Offer up oranges.
His electric field can start
sparrows, all inner forcesunmoored. Keep him close.
He can hold a live hen
in knife teeth,bathe it in road water.
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Wolf Fox Egg Moon
I wont tell wolf I lovefox, fresh eyes, hair red,
half-musical breath. In hacked grass
we have all we want:
discarded tension, eggs, saying nothing,
self-polished dreads. Gold-blood birds
read our sly, accurate dramas.
Sometimes confusing
questions with answers, we sharethe pavements opinion of light.
In dead brush, selfish
fox streaks marks of intent.
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Waiting for Snails
In our valley of ice we practice looking
heroic. Were hungry, head-dressed with forks
& cups, without one sign of anything
winged. Bat-eyed hunting dogs, a river of sick
sturgeon, all of Wolfs fears zig-zag,
rash. Little barbs smart down his middle,
hes sullen, pre-surgical, lowered. The doctor
on a snow bank reads from The Book of Summer
Conversations, Wolf shakes, untwists.
This is going to be a fast trip, both of us hold
the phrase in case it vapors. Sudden lichen-light
opens the possibility of snails, rain nests.
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Purification
On Tonquin mountain we eat
bowls of steam from nights wind-love.
A wolf bursts out from tonsured trees,
sickcheeked, knotted blanket coat: here, here
come, She, She. We have leftovers for boredom,
and Beaujolais. Snow between us
opens tight-whipped teeth. Come washyour curls, She, in our grave of air.
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Quick Fish
A nice net is widening, tauntingout speckled brown trout. Rose-scented birds
peak peak, peak peak, hiding in the alders
the musk-smoke-old-corn-coat of a cougar.
Wolf sends out thick-sewn running-at-you
warnings. Todays wind, when it comes,
is available for work. On the highway, hot trucks
salt our fish with diesel exhaust.
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Wolf, Pursuit
In the tree bed he runs
his tongue, warm as a hand,
to a groan. Hovelling beside,
coke-black fox with his mouth of light
winks. Wolf watches the crosswalk,people with their glasses of gold,
unswallowing. We could be discussing war, water
infected, interrogating papers. What happens
with avoidance. Fox might find a way,
all summer washed in dirt, tragic but true.
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Wolf Salad
There is an equation
for wolf-love: N=r^2+n,
a lopsided circle, an openmelon. Hands break off
lettuces, pleasure sleeps inside
a salad. So many ancestors
eating meals in sweaters,
spaces inside ice beneath
breathe, lungs. Every passing wolf
shows up as a solution
on our window. Dog shrieks,
each ache inside transferred to us.
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Three Nights in a Tree
Weeks of handshakes, passing packs
of royals milk us of all potential.
At night I hold the stuffed crow
tighter. A holiday in maples shoots straight
from the sun, the air lends us keysand conversation. Up here we move by scraps,
covered in mirthy whispers. Venus
Erycina lies flat as cat, cracks
tender oysters. Electric leaves lead
in B singing, do it, do it, do it.
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Everlasting Wolves
Wolf croaks, the sound a rotten bell
inside a swollen throat. Wide bison eyes
cow us down, their craggy weight
unshifting in grasses. We backward
to a tent of cedars. One lone camper at dark
sings us a warm castle, dragon-scented
medieval lullabies. We go there, shouldered,
palming hummingbirds, greeting Canidaes from history,
packed, melodic, snouts and sharp smells.
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Copyright 2008 Diana S. Adams