Twenty or more in the meadow.
I ran down to meet them
Buried my face in their sides.
Smelled their urine and sex.
Ran bedside them.
Alas,
descended.
Conversed with souls,
both human and animal.
Read the book of sticks
from beginning to end.
Rose up again
in the form of a coyote.
Killed a deer.
Pulled muscle from bone.
Slept in the snow.
Howled at the moon.