The foxes hold their wedding at the base of the mountain
They wait for the rainbows to banner the sky
For the rain to fall while the sun shines
Their normative ideas about the future keep them yoked
______to such couplings
No matter what dreams they might have held for themselves
Dressed in your finest you buy them two voles off their registry
I catch the bouquet of narcissus, willow and peony
You walk through a field in black and white
______and you walk through another field in green
______and one in gold
I love you a 29-year-old sprung fully formed
______from the pit of a peach
Charisma in your footsteps
______and your heart so impetuous
______and your eye flits along the fields of differing colors
I stand every day on the New Brunswick train station platform
______waiting for you
Tapping my foot with a sound like water on stone
You reproduce yourself exactly in each of your children
My throat is too narrow for the hole in my stomach to be filled
Which is why I need you, stepping from the train, clothed
______in the skin of the peach
But you are a bad man
Bumming around in the rice fields
You are the fox in her house dress who sits by the window
______watching the hens
Your heart is full of peach pulp and fuzz and the fruit
______around the pit is sour
You are not the monk in his field of persimmon trees
You are not the painter eating his blues
Nor are you the blues or their valuable pigment
You are a man who sprang from the pit of a peach
I loved you while my hair was still buzzed with the #3 clippers
I came to meet you, as far as the platform
The oni rifle through my desk for valuables
They take $300 in cash, my ID cards
They take my money to their castle in the sky
I will grow older and you will grow older and the foxes will fuck
______beneath the rafters of the porch
You will fight the oni in the sky for me
But I can also fight the oni in the sky
I can climb up to the castle on the hill
You have met so many amazing people on this journey
You have this really special connection with the fox
______and the pheasant
______and the monkey who stands, hand pressed to his silent mouth
I press and hold my hand to my mouth
I am biting the peach pit in half with my sharp fox teeth
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