The First Flag

"Eros, Indiscriminate"

At the door the wolves step

backwards into a box. My chained

father attempts to wing himself

with flame. His face hosts

a second face seared by the mental

hazards the wolves find stinky

and reject. Outskirting his heart,

mother dangles the sucked-out

pelts of her wild children. Love

hiss and sexy nightmare. Eros:

an indiscriminate register.

All the bones yarn up.

Sarah Fox co-imagines the Center for Visionary Poetics, and is a doula and teacher. She has won National Endowment for the Arts, Bush Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and Minnesota State Arts Board grants and fellowships.