Ali, thanks for sharing some local goings-on - :). Nothing quite like that kind of early morning chorus and it sounds like they had a lot to talk about. A light touch with a thoughtful ending.

Clever and intelligent. Yes, I recall you previously mentioning the desert fog on your FB page.

Hmmm...I'm beginning to wonder if nature isn't reclaiming some of the old ground She lost to us humans over the past few millennia. They found a coyote in the Bronx the other day. The Bronx! And yeah, they seem to be getting closer all the time, Alison.

I love coyotes and I love your poem, it made me want to write something too, so here you go: 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.