"Last Call" by Carl Phillips
This poem threw me for a loop with the fox and hunting imagery because what song could it be in response to other than "I Know Places"? In the song, there's a repeating line, "They are the hunters / we are the foxes."
I read it several times and noticed "carnations" and the line "To say I chose this - to say I wanted you" seems to parallel "And I chose you" in the song. In the poem "thanks to memory" also lines up with "And I wake with your memory over me." The fox is described as "rust" in the poem, and there's a line in the song, "the rust that grew between telephones." So, it has to be "Maroon."
This poem became better and better each time I read it. At first, I wasn't sure what to make of it, but it really grew on me with each read. I particularly love the line, "The shallow bowl her gray shadow makes on the snow whose blankness customarily stands for death, though I remember thinking it could mean possibility, everything seemed possible."
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