We imagine to hunt & forage
on the sandy streambank,
to follow the paved path
& burst out through the trees.
But the Fox Mother
has shown us her teeth,
taught us to be,
to peel away
with claw & fang.

We are not the same
savages we once were
in the waving honey-leaves.
Tonight,
in this bronze wood
we are silent & broken,
our time of golden trees
has passed.

Krista Canterbury Adams

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Krista Canterbury Adams has studied poetry at Ohio Dominican University and The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Her poem “Resurrection” has been published in print and online. She has a six-poem series due to be printed this spring in AHF Magazine & has forthcoming work in His Dark Sire, Carmina, Collective Realms, and Children, Churches and Daddies magazines. She is a member of the SFPA.

Artwork: Chie Yoshii
Website: https://www.chieyoshii.com/

 

 

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