coyote
for charles bernstein
coyote, a wily wanderer & sinister
survivor embodies the condensing of travel
without destination stuck with the necessity
of staying alive, one of bernstein’s abridgements
of imperatives. o the gratuitous glutton,
o thrice lascivious lecher, peeping at windows
framing pulchritudinous banquets of innocence.
trickster, pragmatist, outlaw, clown & persistent cheat,
u never give up -- always there to soothly sully
serendipity; taking nothing seriously,
loitering around humanity’s tonal edge.
a defining contrast to sans-psychic road-running
mis-seaming the mishaps of personal heroics.
©Joseph McNair;2009
survivor embodies the condensing of travel
without destination stuck with the necessity
of staying alive, one of bernstein’s abridgements
of imperatives. o the gratuitous glutton,
o thrice lascivious lecher, peeping at windows
framing pulchritudinous banquets of innocence.
trickster, pragmatist, outlaw, clown & persistent cheat,
u never give up -- always there to soothly sully
serendipity; taking nothing seriously,
loitering around humanity’s tonal edge.
a defining contrast to sans-psychic road-running
mis-seaming the mishaps of personal heroics.
©Joseph McNair;2009
Love this!
ReplyDeleteCoyote...what a poetic way to describe a mysterious and misunderstood animal!!!
ReplyDeleteI can see ole wily coyote. You make him dark, sinister and sexy. What does that make you, i wonder?
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ReplyDeleteI see a coyote, but at the same time I see something creepy...with fangs and sinister looking eyes. I guess this would represent the dark side of the coyote.
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ReplyDeleteTo me, this image looks like some sort of evil ghoul. I see the first two parallel blank spots as angry eyes, and the 3rd blank spot below it as an eerie, creepy smile. The two blobs on the top of his head, one on each side, reminds me of a pair of horns or something. And the 3 blobs in between is hair. The dripping blob at the bottom looks like a goatee.
ReplyDeletei see an evil anamalistic image, and my view of this ink blot is confirmed by the poem which lets me know how truely evil and dark this being is.
ReplyDeleteThis was very creative and well written. It makes me look at coyotes diffferent. However, I don't see a coyote in the picture I see two dogs facing opposite directions.
ReplyDeleteI don't exactly see a coyote, I see a face that looks almost evil, with fangs.
ReplyDeleteI see a coyote in the center front of the ink blog showing symbolzing strength and drakness. After reading the poem that follows the ink blog I am conformed that the coyote can represent a form of darkness.
ReplyDeletei think the poem tells the truth about the cayote. it describes the way he acts and reacts towards the word.the picture pertrais the malicious and the bad accts of this cayote.
ReplyDeletei like the misteriousness and darkness you give to the coyote. you transform him to a different type of creature than what everyone usually thinks about it.
ReplyDeleteThe coyote is not always a dark and sinister thief. She is also a warm and nurturing mother, a skillfull huntress, and under the right circumstances a loyal and protective companion
ReplyDeleteThe coyote is a sinister animal. He lives in the shadows and comes into the light for survival but in surviving, he takes lives.
ReplyDeleteFrom the looks of the inkblot, its an evil image. I see horns and slanted eyes,the mouth is open. The poem describes and supports my opinion that the image is some type of sinful beast.
ReplyDeleteI see evil. I see the devil trying to tempt me.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read the Article It think it tells me about how evil and sneaky a coyote can really be. I really see the devil with two horns coming out of his head. Does that mean I'm crazy.
This poem is very tricky to me. I somewhat dont understand the poem but by some of the words that are used in the poem, I would think that the coyote is very practical and doesn't take the need to stay alive very seriously.
ReplyDeleteThe picture makes this poem seem very demonic. The shadow seems like a shadow of darkness that follow to create dark paths of evilness.It seems to be very scheemful and sneeky.
ReplyDeleteThis is an animal that many people do not understand its way of thought. The main thing that I like is that it may not really care for it'a actions or what happens. But it still is smooth when it needs to and never gives up. I see as it does not take things serious but still strong when it is needed.
ReplyDeleteThe coyote described here is like a free spirit no subject to any rules or chains. In the image, I do not see any coyote, but a grotesc face laughing and defying the rules of the world.
ReplyDeleteThe picture does clearly represent a coyote, but I'm trying to llok hard past that. The picture aslmost looks like the face of a creepy clown, the type we see in scary movies.
ReplyDeleteThis image to my point of view describes a very evil animal something that is taking the power of everything around it.I see in this image a bat flying away like in movies trying to scare and take over everything.It has nothing beautiful it in like the poem says.
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