Oop! I never actually got to fave and comment! But I just loved the beans out of this! The idea, the story behind it was just too cute! Great job turning it into a poem, too!

Aww, thank you! It was a lot of fun, though I realized the idea was influenced by the previous contest. XD

Was it? I didn't even notice! I just thought of Halloween, lol.

Halloween was the big one, but the human shadows, how it's he spirit of the deceased . . . ?

Ooh, I didn't read it quite so literally. Referring to shadows reminded me of shades, aka ghosts, spirits. I thought of each skin giving the impression of the spirit that danced. Different shaped foxes representing the memories of the spirits. I saw a spindly fox and a fatty fox and a fox wearing a long, beaded necklace, and a fox marching with a rifle. Like something from a dream on ol' Hallows Eve. Wether or not the spirits had been foxes, I imagined the memories as fox-people. Like each spirit's memory might have super-imposed their fox pelt over whatever they had actually been and made the assumed guise part of the memory. If that makes sense...? XD

Cool, I can certainly see that. And the idea of their past memories stamped on the pelts is definitely what I was going for. Basically the idea of corpses dancing in a graveyard, only a recently vacated body could be a temporary home to old souls.

I definitely got that from the poem. I just, I don't know how to say it exactly... When I was younger, I'd cling to every word of a poem and try to imagine it exactly as it was written. But then certain writing styles aren't easily understood from that perspective. When I started reading T. S. Eliot I didn't cling to every word so much as use the words and phrases hat stood-out to me to create an impression of the poem, so to speak.

Incidentally, this is also how I try to approach drawing, too. :D

Haha, so at first you treated them literally, and then later you came to realize that much of poetry is about invoking a mood than describing a space.
Oh jeese, yeah, anything with T.S. Eliot is weird to try and take literally. XD
Though when it comes to using imagery to inspire a specific mood, Eliot is pretty great.

And I can understand seeing art that way as well, that's part of why your art always stood out to me because of the feeling and impressions of your style, the specific mood of the color combinations and the sense of movement and liveliness of the line treatment . . . I hope I'm not boring you, when I think about stuff like this I tend to go into art critique mode. ^ ^'

Eeek! I never replied to this?!

Anyway, yes! Evoking mood. Once I learned to read poetry with my gut instead of my brain, it got less confusing (even if I still didn't know what the author meant, lol).

And holy cow, what a lovely compliment! I'm really glad you enjoy all those aspects of my art. They are big areas of interest for me! :D Talking in-depth about art is never boring for me!