<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22.4px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;" class="">Outside</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22.4px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The least little sound sets the coyotes walking,<br class="">walking the edge of our comfortable earth.<br class="">We look inward, but all of them<br class="">are looking toward us as they walk the earth.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22.4px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We need to let animals loose in our houses,<br class="">the wolf to escape with a pan in his teeth,<br class="">and streams of animals toward the horizon<br class="">racing with something silent in each mouth.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22.4px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">For all we have taken into our keeping<br class="">and polished with our hands belongs to a truth<br class="">greater than ours, in the animal´s keeping.<br class="">Coyotes are circling around our truth.</p><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- William Stafford</div></body></html>