MOUNTED FOXHEADS

Most foxheads are curs

See them: mounted,

Lining the green walls of hedgerows

Then, there was one

Walked with its orange wirebrush nose

Next to me down down the wet road

To the local shop for a 75cl whiskey

Nostrum for the oncome of evening

We were tracking but our matter

Was cold clay in our skull cups

‘A lot of people wish they were you’

I say and the concentrated apple-form eyes

Shift and glaze and almost roll at the words

The ears prick to the powerline’s hum

I’m going to write an article on

Whether too much hair clogs the brain

With that, the cub coughs a bezoar