Animals of the City

Behold the fox.

Foraging nature blurred,
Brief ouroboros furred,
Redness that flows as if bled,
Winter at either end,
One each to tickle and rend,
Slender
And red, and red.

The charcoal cat.

Wandering coffin,
Every so often
Yowling, annoyed, annoyed,
Stain or sign fretted
On sky, silhouetted,
Marked
A void, a void.

At last, the man.

Hectic as cat can be,
Joined from planes that would flee,
Gathered by wont and strain,
Stuck as a gecko
Sketched by El Greco
Into
A train, a train.

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