Fox Poems 1 - Dual Nature/Single Identity
I see you draw back the arrow A caustic remark To the machinations of a being Not like yourself. Cicaeda in the shell A question answered, in time: A reality, or a dream? One's soul... a soul. One cannot live as another. So draw back...
Objection
By any means be the one to the goal. Whatever that may mean. Seems it's the drive of all mankind. "Only I achieved." "I was the Hero." Selfishness. Yet, here is more; "It is only right that we volunteer ourselves for the greater good." And to...
Meat
Grinding nails, pulling up flakes, the taste of garlic. Pain. Thoughts of malaise. "Why me?" Restless nights, and slept-through days. Pictures of women--not human, not animal--both. _Kami no Kitsune._ Bad habits, worse reflection. A handsome face...
That Boy's Buried Principle
Bodily freedom is a hard thing to come by But I won't stop! To feel the rush of the wind in my hair--no pain, no itching, no misery One sleek animal promises to me, I can run, swift and be free--no, be me! No more lament, just moving forward on all...
Seven-Tails, Chapter 4
Three in the afternoon. I yawned, staring up at the clock on the dresser across the room. I had nodded off to sleep several times since the nightmare. It was not so much that I wasn't reacting to the terrible dream. You'd normally expect to stay awake...
Seven-Tails, Chapter 2
Fifteen dollars plus some tax. That was for the damage, and to pay for the woman's mice as well, for her kid's stupid snake. But they tasted good. So we had some more. No. Did I think that? It was true. He had not told me, nor ordered, nor said...
Seven-Tails, Chapter 1
He calls himself "Shichi", and says my job now is to support him. Like it was a choice. He let me write this. Maybe it's his way of bragging. Don't really know what a fox has to brag about, but I guess I'm supposed to be some kind of accomplishment....
Waiting to be Human
He admired himself once more, under the clouded sky, Benath the moonlit skein, which reflected in a sparkling, Golden eye. "I embrace this." he whispered, as he wrapped his arms about his companion. She too, as a fox-woman, tittered, As they...
A Trap I Laid
Bundled muscles tensing Crackling bones and marrow Shifting of a shimmering soul From civilized to feral Stench, sweet and sour musk From dusky black upon cremy white The plume of a foul and fine tail Swishes in the sacred moonlight His...
Duality
_What must we endure, to be 'us'?_ "I don't know. I don't know." There is a divide, between who you are, and your ideal self: the you inside the shell. _Look in the mirror, but you won't see me._ "I know, I know! There is little I can do but...