Dailies 8/4/17: coyote men, death, destiny, & sweet life

Dana Koster – Coyote

Coyote followed me
to my car, followed me
past the tumbleweeds, past
the wagon wheel splayed

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Emily Dickinson – It was a quiet way

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It was a quiet way—

He asked if I was his—

I made no answer of the Tongue

But answer of the Eyes—-

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Cynthia Manick – Things I Will Tell My Children About Destiny

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*************You remind them

*******of weighted tumbleweeds,

hen-egg brown. Don’t let-

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 Scott Cairns  – Sweet Life      La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini (1960)

In a frame or two, Marcello
will turn away, finally having
failed to hear her voice, the angelic
girl beckoning from across
the estuary’s rift in the beach,
etching in the sand the divide
between his world and her world.

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