Fox Medicine in the Bosque
Bosque Dreaming: Fox Medicine
december gently leaves the
bosque
taking directions from the
rio grande
a silent consonant of
geese
january steps down the pinon
staircase
from her sandia house
follows Fox into the
bosque
finds traveling on foot is
good here
well-padded shoes
a crust of snow
cushion of leaf litter
fallen twigs embossing
brittle bosque braille
into nomadic feet
Fox medicine is good
traveling medicine
invisible as the round
conversation
between oxygen and carbon
inside their dance of
breathing quietude
rambling between
cottonwood willow thickets
brushing against exposed
skin
catching a wing of winter
scarf
halting frozen attention
untangling into deep
breath medicine
vivaciousness
murmuring gypsy siren
songs
across lapping shallows and
sandbars
dancing out into the rio
teasing minnows
hypnotizing cranes
licking intention medicine
cunning in cunning s swift
sly shy little Fox beauty way medicine
silent as night owl
playing with mice
a wise glint of silliness
in her fine sharp eyes
fancy dancing
with the beautiful red
bird pulsing
inside her delicately ribbed
cage medicine
pointing pert precise
pretty Fox nose
pink tongue fine teeth efficient
mouth
singing gypsy river Fox songs
walking on water like a crisp
leaf
with dragonfly wings
courting cold current
medicine
can you see how Fox s red
bird pulses
leaps into the river of my
own wrist medicine?
how Fox nips fresh wishes from
my winter pink lips
runs away with my january
tongue
leaves me holding her
lively red bird
cupped in my own red
medicine hands
red as mouse blood
ripe berry stains
red flame in my crystalline
eyes
warm fire in my sated
gypsy belly medicine?
no hunger breathing here
save for more of this more of this
fine little shapeshifter medicine
teaching oneness
how to be a tree
how to climb one
how to be its shadow
how to adopt the burrow
beneath it
if only for one red
traveling january night
how to blithely crawl
inside
how to sleep awake
feral
licking my own lucid
bliss-bloodied gypsy paws!
Namasté Little Gray Fox
and thank you!
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