Time, ancient and present,
paces under the skin
of dry prairie, a line
of shadows down its back,
the primordial shadow
of the aurochs on the walls
at Lascaux or the last tarpan
on the steppes of Russia,
wavering shadows on the land.
Coyote Dun (Bayo coyote)
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Clarence Wolfshohl
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