Coyote Moon

It's Poetry Friday! Hooray! Last week I had this idea for a poem to go with a picture. Actually, I had taken the dog out, and heard a band of coyotes across the road, down in the river flats just below our house. They sounded very close and were probably on our neighbors property just across the road. There are lots of trees out here, and lots of dark with no street lighting in our village (if we were even in fact in the village). The sound of coyotes when you are out by yourself in nowhere is beautiful but eerie. I brought the dog in. Later in the evening when the moon came into view of my big windows, I got this picture with my iPhone. Later I put the two events together, along with a third event that occurs regularly here: the sightings and sounds of owls. I immediately thought "gotta write something about this". And it was so clear in my mind that I knew I'd be doing that for Friday last week. And then Thursday night and Friday morning do you think