coyotes

      by Jason Bolles
(montana poet    +1943)




A flake of moon in a speckle of fire,
      Lighting a barren lea:
And out of the shadows a goblin choir
     Singing a ghostly glee:
           rrrrooooo

Now a single voice in a mellow yell;
   Hark to the flirt and fleer!
Now hark to the ravening chorus swell
   The wild cadenza of fear:
    rr rk rr
rooeeeyihyihyihrrr

'Rroyo and rimrock,  bench and butte,
   Pale in a whey of light,
While the voice of a mad, insouciant brute
   Sings in the sage-sweet night:
         eee







ed.  jdh