Fox Populi by Kate Fox

Author:Kate Fox [Fox, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780957574779
Publisher: Smokestack Books
Published: 2013-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

Small men in military uniform

come, chests out

to perch on her.

Cooing at women in skirts,

begging passersby for food,

their shit browning her head,

they have no respect

for nature.

Dead Pull

Of course your name had shrunk

after a lifetime of rain,

but to access the factory where they detach them

you were legally required to say

it was being renounced, relinquished and abandoned

before they’d let it peel itself away letter by letter

and rise jerkily

to soar hundreds of feet up,

join the constant ticker tape parade in reverse

somewhere above Birmingham.

I think yours would have lingered,

captivated by its first aerial view of you,

held by the slight fuzziness,

the vibrating heat haze,

as your new name adopted, assumed, determined,

slunk around you like stage smoke.

Until your outline became reading-glasses sharp again,

until a witness agreed that you were

designated, described and addressed

with a new combination of letters.

The old ones could then spiral confidently upwards

impressing the air,

satisfied in their service

as those retired men who spend their new lives

asking pigeons only

to fly away and come back.

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