DEAD POEM

FOX STOLE
LICK A SLIP SLID DOWNER
HID & BURROW
CACHE STIR BAWDY FULL
BELLOW

THEE FIRST
THIN KING OF TENDER
TOOK A PAWN & SELF
FUR THIS FUR THAT

SKULK SIN SHADE OWE
SLINK & LURK
FOR EDGE FOUR EGGS
FUR HUNG HER

FED KIT & CUB
OODLES LADEN DEN
BUSH HE TAILED HE MATED

KNOWS TOO
THIEVE & LEAVE

INNCOOPED CHICK
CHANT STEAL A WAY
DIME
TWO TIME
OUT WAYS
A FOXES BLUSHES

BUDDY ONCE ONCE ONCE
WONT REDDEN
NOSH AIM INIMICAL

VIXEN
TWO DO IT
EGG IN

SUCCOR SIP
LAPS LAPSE
AT SHOTS SHOT OUT

FIRED TRIFLE
LEFT NAY KIT

FOX COMBED
COCK HELD DEAD
DISS & HUSSY BAND

O PINION S/HE
HAS & HAS KNOT

Published under the name Jeanette Karhi in Poetry International, 2006, Iss. 10