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| Mark Wunderlich [twitter] |
Oh,
Unreadable One, why
have
you done this to your dumb creature?
Why
have you chosen to punish the coyote
rummaging
for chicken bones in the dung heap,
shucked
the fur from his tail
and
fashioned it into a scabby cane?
Why
have you denuded his face,
tufted
it, so that when he turns he looks
like
a slow child unhinging his face in a smile?
The
coyote shambles, crow-hops, keeps his head low,
and
without fur, his now visible pizzle
is a
sad red protuberance,
his
hind legs the backward image
of a
bandy-legged grandfather, stripped.
Why
have you unhoused this wretch
from
his one aesthetic virtue,
taken
from him that which kept him
from
burning in the sun like a man?
Why
have you pushed him from his world into mine,
stopped
him there and turned his ear
toward
my warning shout?
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| fox with mange in Argentina |
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