“Fox in the Garden”

There's a fox buried in the garden

I saw him/she/it in the road

Flipped around and grabbed a bag 

Lot a flies and torn in half

Was almost repulsed, but still

There's a fox buried in the garden 


There's a fox buried in the garden

I hoped a funeral of some sort would bring good Karma

To the tulips, iris, crocus and clover

And the fox spirit would protect this little corner

From any imposing irrational disorders 


There's a fox buried in the garden 

And I suspect that's true for most of time

Depending on how one would define "a garden" 


There's a fox buried in the garden

I wonder, Is it the same fox I saw leaping over that fence, snatching our neighbors' chickens the year prior? 

Nevertheless

There's a fox buried in the garden 


There's a fox buried in the garden

Is a thought that only comes to mind

Every once a week, or less.

When I'm moving rocks around and wonder why that one has stayed for so long

My mind does the "Ahhhhhhhhh" thing as it remembers- that's a headstone


There's a fox buried in the garden

So the headstone has a stack of peculiarly balanced smaller stones atop,

as a reminder

There's a fox buried in the garden 


Rest a while in decompslumber 

Maybe I'll happen upon it some year 

In that moment when the flesh is eaten away, but the skull remains?

Until then, there's a fox buried in the garden 


From this paver is noticed an eagle Asunder 

Gliding around in an updraft

 likely looking to plunder 

A bald one at that and there's no taking it under


No two ways to Sunday 

Sunshine doth dwindle

Making me as feel little as 

I look up at baldy here speckling in the glare


If I were a fox now would I hide at the sight

Of the apex areal Predator 

Would there be shelter here

In this garden 

For a fox 

Well, if not, im glad to be a two legger

And not the fox 

Buried in the garden 

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