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title: "A fox drags the dusk"
pubDate: "Oct 13 2025"
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from the clouds, jaws gripped round
the light that slots the rumpled birches'
just-unburdened boughs

trackless in the frowzled leaves,
she suddens over yearning
roots,
scarlet ember of the summer's
afterlife, tugging sunset
taut
along the eaves

skies groan grateful
as their skin stretches
thin
and their bones show through

no one hears her straining
breath
before the snap

no one sees her tumble to her
den in the hollow
-chested
night

bottomless hours on,
pushed in the barrow of a robin's
song,
dawn
overflows the dark

yet no one knows if or when
she'll wake again
to save the day from day