TWO COYOTE POEMS

THE WORLD

The world is too much

with us, Coyote recalls

from years long past.

Soon and late, or late

and soon, he jumbles

up the words, anyway,

getting and spending,

we lay waste our powers…

and then the rest is gone.

Sometimes, though,

he remembers the whole

thing, Maître Corbeau,

for example, sur un arbre

perché, that one.  There

is no rhyme or reason
to exlain remembering.

Well, sometimes maybe

rhyme.  Mostly, though,

it’s only snippets, like

the world is too much

with us.  Wordsworth.

GOOD MOMENTS

In his good moments

Coyote brings to mind

the need to send out

thoughts of goodwill

and compassion to those

who, whether out of

ignorance or malice,

cause mischief in the world;

and not least to those

innocents who are made

to suffer in consequence.