from a Japanese legend
Children are told to stay inside
when rain flashes
in lemon light,
clear beads falling
from a cloudless sky,
for on such a day
the foxes marry.
Innocents know
what they must do,
how to slip out of the house,
shed the adult suit,
leave it like a cast-
at wood’s edge,
find thing after thing
to love,
dark bodies of trees
pressing themselves
against blue air,
thick leaves arching to receive
liquid strokes,
water coalesced into seeds
with swollen bellies,
each bearing a crescent of light,
and when the small red fox
touches its glistening lip
to the grin of its mate,
they know it is time to go home,
full of light,
full of rain.
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