from Impressions on His First Father's Day
Padma Jared Thornlyre
1.
Half-dead coyote
reduced to mange and the will to live
finds his legs, some meat
to hide his bones--a stag
bleeding into the creek--
road-kill to stave off starvation
for another day, perhaps
a week. Deer-blood
and mining produce
two distinct reds
this creek must
carry downstream.
