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Coyote
by Eva Sippel

"When I first read this piece, I was struck by the truth it tells about the duality of our lives. Even as we go through the motions of our daily routine, there is a bit of the wild watching us from the inside. I am not sure what makes me sadder — that we suppress that inclination to live untamed, or that we never knew we had it in ourselves to begin with."

 

 

I am
Coyote
and I don't live at your house.

I sit
and watch
— outside —
I see
what you do.

Busy cleaning
busy covering up
— removing painfully —
the part inside of you
that sees me.

I am
Coyote
and I don't live at your house
— anymore.

 Graphic of a coyote, labelled Coyote by Eva Sippel

 

© 2002 by Eva Sippel

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