Fox Medicine

sister fox fleeing through forestland
(it’s All so vast over-
whelming roots branches sweeping
ground touching sky)
preying upon/preyed upon small thing
furbearing pheromone bearing
bundle of fourfooted money on the move

never knowing profit
is more important than Truth
more important than Freedom
more important than running Wild
touching Sacred Earth Sacred Water Sacred
Wood Grass Herbs Stone Spirit
more important than Life
(nothing personal –
you’re not a real Life real Being –
just a resource
no purpose in life but ours
you can serve that purpose and die
or die)

if my World is their hunt-
ing ground, my flesh their asset
my habits their study for entrapping
(no soul they recognize in sisterbrother
Beings)
how dare i do my job, play
my role serve the All with
my instincts my Being
my redbrownblackwhite Earthmates (all prey
like me)
how dare we emerge from
cover much less openly be our Truth

Ancestors speak: shapeshift
pass on many paths dodging
between dimensions
immerse in one river of Spirit
put hunters off the scent with
deep feminine Mama magic invoking Mystery in
language they do not know
distracting deflecting working
Outside
the limits of their logic
affirming allying with essential
Earthpower holding
the Center grounding
Life