flightedfox

[flightedfox]

fairy rings

i thought dying would make you remember me but amnesia has never been kind to me sometimes you'll tell me about myself the ways that my living ghost haunts you my shadow will creep into passing conversations as my feathers press into oil under your weight if the falling trees could speak, would they speak of me- or quietly crush the mushrooms that mark my grave?

[flightedfox]

yellowstone

The fox and kestrel dance alone In the soul, a place unknown Known only to the fragile heart A place where feelings fall apart  The fox snaps its jaws, pounces and cries  As the kestrel climbs the skies  Orange and blue, orange and grey  As much a fight as it is play Gnashing claws and gentle fangs  Locked together, hunger pangs Paws on dirt, wings on air Careful, floating, holding there  Coarse as fur, light as feathers  Soft and careful, cruel endeavors  One of reason, one of light One of fear, one of flight  The rocks will sing, the stars will call The sky, the ground, caught in the thrall  Ten thousand feet, or down below There’s nowhere either one can go Motion-sick and farther still Gentle touches, looks that kill Come down- maybe, maybe not Fly with me- now that’s a thought And if I fall, I have no wings- Only if we are separate things Two sides of a spinning dime  Up, then down, a waltz through time  Two parts of the whole, never less Puzzling, flapping, shared distress A divided creature, a chimera, in truth  Cycling back into its youth  Will they land, or will they soar  It’s a want, a need, a war  Grasping fiercely, every word  A heart and mind, a fox and a bird

[flightedfox]

tabby

chipped nail polish in fluttering parking lots

six pm moonlight and a melting skull

failing feet carry me home, slow

no one is waiting there anyways

jet plane music and streetlight crosses

time flows in its monotony, unwavering cruelty

the air is colder than it's ever been

you can never keep me warm again

[flightedfox]

roadkill

satan sees the world through the headlights on the highway heretical darkness hides the deals we make at crossroads the asphalt whispers promises painted in golden yellow boundary lines shift and weave, astigmatisms of the witching hour the molten ground glitters in an unfinished halo obsidian rumbles as dead air churns the morning stars are shining at me i can no longer see god and i'm smiling

[flightedfox]

flaming snakes

you're not scared but you're waiting i'm here to stake it out i'll coil up and wait too here in the pit of your stomach i'm here i'm here

[flightedfox]

enfield

dappled daydream forests fleeting light in angel eyes more spirit than animal guide and war beast creature in motion, half-alive scout of the waking world daywalker cloudshaper dual nature

[flightedfox]

thermal vent

kick the poets from their thrones we don't need them where we are everywhere you look- it's all a love poem falling into it on its own terms willing- or unwilling it doesn't matter it will never wait for you tumbling without looking up who was gravity pulling? my body, my knees the veins in my hands pressed to the holy dirt