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Valerie Fox
Offering Mandala
Horse,
deer, mastiff, and yak
attend a party, yap-
ping
and clipping, ribboned and dressed,
amidst human limbs.
They
ask, how’d I get here?
Where are my kin?
The
blackness of these animals,
and their heading west
might
mean something
or it might not.
Two
vultures, past and future
constellations, freeze
against
the planet
Earth blue.
A
population infringes
upon these lands. A few odd books.
My
own kind lie dormant.
Late and undressed.
Put
your eye to that eye.
The ocean retorts.
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Valerie Fox's new book of poems, A Voyeur's Handbook, is
forthcoming from Strawgate Press. She's published in numerous
magazines, including West Branch,
Painted Bride Quarterly, and
Hanging Loose. She
teaches English at Drexel University in
Philadelphia, PA. email: V.Fox
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