<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I, Coyote, Stilled Wonder<div><br></div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" style="width: auto; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="td1"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">When did I get this bejawed look,<br>that flashes up out of creeks and pools?<br>Was it when I fled across<br>pasture and through woods,<br>up to ledge, and came out<br>in the world to let myself think events<br>back into their right sequence again?<br>Man glaring into bloody mess on ground,<br>cow, who has birthed calf, I,<br>Coyote, actually tasted,<br>ate of it well past demarcating line<br>where calf becomes aftermatter.<br>I think it was then, when I fled<br>singing, happy, to wood’s edge.<br>I could see Man raise arms,<br>steady his over-and-under, and squeeze.<br>I, Coyote, I was there, yes I saw it all,<br>even the flock of tiny lead<br>that went scattering past.<br>I felt in me all those that hit,<br>nearly shattered wraith, clinging<br>to crushed jawbone, invisibly<br>slickering through trees, from here on<br>alone, I, Coyote, stilled wonder.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Galway Kinnell</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div></div></body></html>