#9 (Late)

A family of foxes
trying to say
behind, under, without

the fire cast down
across the porch
bows of heat

foxes
laying by the shed
trembled tooth
meaning in fresh blood

a man looking
into black paint
he pisses
the foxes hear

the fire spreads
fingers in the shed

the foxes see the man
the man sees the foxes

in the paint
they see each other

they do not recognize
fire from the smoke
seeing from looking

a fox
from a blade of grass