Moonlight, so bright

Moonlight, so bright,

Reveal the three sisters tonight.

Shimmering beasts of the shadow realm,

jealously reach for the sky ship sans helm.

Seven sisters from their realm on high

jealously cast a longing eye

on the murmuring giants far below

as they timidly glimmer in the twilight glow.

Coyote Boy

Coyote boy came loping through the 'hood.

He was gangly, walking crookedly,

and howling to a tune

beneath the light of the rising moon.

Coyote boy preferred the shadows of dusk.

His hair was disheveled, his eyes dark.

But I held his glance for just a moment

as he side-stepped through my yard.

Was that a momentary flicker, a light,

a memory of being human behind that dark fringe?

It passed as he dropped his eyes

and dodged toward the next house.

Coyote boy, as if drawn by some primal call,

ducked into the shadows of the wood just beyond,

still howling a tune

beneath the light of the winter moon.