# The Black Dog Chases Foxes

Author: Dakaar
Tags: Poetry

Freeform poetry from the introspective collection, Black Dog, that runs with a folkloric figure that is often associated with misfortune and used as a metaphor for depression. Black Dog looks at this figure and gives him a voice, letting him bark back at a society that’s already made up its mind about him.

The quick brown fox

 

jumps over the

 

Black Dog.

 

At his best, fated to befriend the hand of every man 

 

to ever raise one to him,

 

the Black Dog gawps envious

 

at the first russet glance.

 

Bewildered as he heaves ponderous from the brier,

 

while the fox bounds weightless

 

to spell carnage in a red font midst the chooks,

 

then capers away

 

and tosses a wink,

 

the Back Dog marvels

 

at the fucking balls of it all.

 

The hand snaps his reverie in two

 

over his skull.

 

How could you?

 

Just look at what

 

you let them do.

 

The unhurried fox departs, unpursued,

 

but in his heart the Black Dog’s feet

 

are thundering.

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