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You have forgotten
the skeleton of a fox
in the skeleton of a hole
the spine giving its telegraph
to the unlistening earth
the architecture of it
honeyed with maggots
the pupa of the hole
hatched into the soil
the earth an exoskeleton
honeyed with magma
rock as hot as guts
yawning catastrophically
coreward
from which the spine erupts
with a rabid screech
as the mantle folds
as the lightbulb stuns
the skull with revelations
from the electron gospels
reanimating the fox
which now wears the mantle
as it traipses through the stars
leaving pawprints of lava
among the milky archipelagoes
all of which you
starry-eyed
forget