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Coyotes, Sex, and Cartridges: Mary in the Window

The American South sits in my throat like grief.

Faded floral curtains on
Either side of a square, stained window
Brown flecks, sometimes red, like the one in
My brother’s eye—
Nobody knows where they come from.

Do you think
	Eve and Lilith used to kiss?
		In the garden where no one could see?

New Mexico coyotes, dug up from pond banks
	Smile at me

Categories: coyotes, growing up, identity, places,
Form: Free verse

Cries Piercing the Night’s Silence

In the shadowed field, the night breaks
into a cacophony of cries, sharp and piercing.
A pack of coyotes, voices tangled in hunger and triumph,
sings a chilling lullaby in the darkness.

Their song, a harbinger of life meeting its end,
echoes through our open bedroom window,
a reminder of the wildness that prowls
just beyond the reach of our porch light.

Somewhere,

Categories: coyotes, death, nature,
Form: Free verse

sound of coyotes

midnight once again
just the sound of coyotes 
keep her company

Categories: coyotes, nature,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Coyotes Call

The moon sitting up there so high.
its light fills the sky
Making me feel so small
Somewhere I can hear a coyote call
I see a star as it starts its fall
A night
So bright
So peaceful here under the moon light
Another shooting star
Up there in the sky so far
I look around
Hearing so many a sound
An owl cries out.
who, who

Categories: coyotes, 5th grade, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Howling of the Coyotes

When shadows fall across embattled land 
Dusk creeps slowly westward over the plains 
Comes a-wailing, howling of the coyotes 
Searching for prey among the dry creek runs
Thirsty animals, like humans, take risks
Seek out the sweet nectar of the rainclouds
Potable water, life’s necessity.
This cracked earth, barren of tillable soil
Given for our homeland--great Sioux nation
And Lakota--once land

Categories: coyotes, animal, native american, night,
Form: Free verse

Coyotes In the Neighborhood

Around our neighborhood coyotes stalk,
Looking for helpless newborn animals  
Count them among unwanted cannibals  
Be aware when taking your evening walk;  
Danger for older folks who stand and gawk,  
In nature, coyotes are radicals! 

Lead coyote grabs his unwary prey, 
And carries it back to the entire pack 
Victims have no

Categories: coyotes, animal, nature,
Form: Verse

Coyotes In the City

Here’s advice that we’ve received
In case we have a sighting
Of wild coyotes in the park;
The fear has been igniting.

Just raise your arms and stand up tall,
Pretending to be bigger,
For apprehension such behavior
In these beasts may trigger.

Then hopefully they’ll trot away
But if somehow they linger,
Keep pets real close but otherwise
Don’t run or lift a finger.

In Central

Categories: coyotes, animal, new york,
Form: Rhyme

Coyotes and Cats Eyes

She's sat whistling 
unusual?
but good 
little red in the face 
with a blue coat 
and hood.

The big fellow with a moustache 
cigarette ash on his lapel is
whistling as well.

A musical start to the day hits me
right in the heart,
this is the way that we rock.

Monday 
a shock to the system and 
weekends?
seems that I always

Categories: coyotes, angst, perspective, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Band of Coyotes

BAND OF COYOTES

The howling of snow across bucolic roads
Coyotes constrain the neighborhood
Weather prediction — gone amok

Eight inches of white fur — piled high
Coyotes huddle over car roof and windows
At this point — forsake the bread and milk

Pushing pelts left and right, forging pathway
Steady feet shiver past dangerous breaths
Shave car, drive cautiously down the steep

Coyotes melt

Categories: coyotes, weather,
Form: tristich

Coyotes Cry

as night falls
the coyotes cry
food is scarce


10 syllables   3-4-3

7/20/2017

Categories: coyotes, animal, cry, night,
Form: Haiku

Human Coyotes

From day of birth a howling ghost coyote, 
Ranging "Steppenwolf" of western plains, 
A spineless cousin to more staid peyote, 
Apex wonder drug of wild domains.

A lonesome cry expresses inner feelings, 
Tempted now and then to run with pack, 
Though dominance and harems are glass ceilings, 
Focusing dim wit on what I lack.

First come, first

Categories: coyotes, evil, life, , western,
Form: Quatrain

Coyotes

Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, the coyote is on trial today
After you have heard the facts,it will not take you long to find him guilty
This case will be short, but it will not be sweet
When it is all over, there will be nothing else you can say
You will find out, he is not the

Categories: coyotes, animalscry, drug,
Form: I do not know?