How to Apparel Yourself for the Hunt

Outside, carolling dogs.

In your chest, a slight hissing predicts this year

will not support the great hunts of before,

and it’s true your six-toed bitch is gone,

and the half blue-eyed puppies you secretly fed.

A new mount shivers and stamps.

You’re thirsty for poison.

But when the fox kindles dry fields,

dreams lie down like neighboring kingdoms.

Your heart with its little hole rejoices.