Track Insight / Lyrics
Snow lies folded on my lawn
Frost has locked the garden dawn
I am buried by the gate
Waiting out this brittle fate
Through the silence, light feet break
One small trespass through the snow
Vulpes slips beside the fence
Sharp eyes glint beyond the lens
Thaws touch moss beneath my tines
Waiting in the root-fed lines
A flash of auburn, nose aloft
Crossing where the cold has wrought
Little fox, cut through my white
Silver tracks beneath the night
One warm print upon the ground
Where your restless feet are found
Run beyond the frozen rake
I will hold the snow awake
Scoria dust beneath the boards
Crocosmia bows toward the doors
I have watched a hundred springs
Tending winter's stubborn things
Now your paws disturb the hush
Tail dividing through the brush
Little fox, cut through my white
Silver tracks beneath the night
One warm print upon the ground
Where your restless feet are found
Run beyond the frozen rake
I will hold the snow awake
Leaves are sleeping underground
Roots count time without a sound
Still, one heartbeat warms the loam
As you vanish through the foam
Frost upon my metal face
You return the yard to grace
You approached with wary tread
Sniffed the marigold, lay dead
Frost had sealed the planting ground
Curled the marigold around
For three bright seconds, breath to breath
You woke the quiet under death
Little fox, cut through my white
Silver tracks beneath the night
One warm print upon the ground
Where your restless feet are found
Run beyond the frozen rake
I will hold the snow awake
By sunrise, tracks are gone
Only softened snow remains
One warm print, then I stay
Keeping patience in the clay
Vulpes, cross and disappear
I am waiting through the year
