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02/06/2015 05:05 a.m.
In response to Alison McKenzie's Coyote Council:

This morning we
called a council outside of
your little neighborhood
while no one else
was awake.

We do this once in a while —
once, a while ago, we did this
in the daylight instead.

Once, a while ago, people
remembered that we were more
than seethings masses to be
shot from helicopters and
poisoned in backyards.

We were
the bringers of fire and the
makers of death and the
mourners of our lost sons
to our friends the crows.

We were
the trickster spirits of lost
people, with human voices and
universal souls and still,
to remind you, we
laugh like children
in the gloaming.

Now we meet early in
the dawn and the mist settles
on the briefly green grasses
and we carry our noises into
your little windows hoping
you’ll remember,
too.