Coyote With The Flowering Heart

I’ve bathed in the yarrow and the rose

Remember it’s not just babies that grow

Though they might hold the miricale first breath

Air’s not the only beginning you’ll know

Trickster we slip into the old ways

And with your crooked ears we play

Coyote with the flowering heart

Can’t even tell my own selves apart

And the catalyst shows

As a belly with your own

Honest as an oak

As sudden as flash flooding

Obsessive as smoke

Remote as the dead sea

So embarassing

I’ll still be your coat

In colder than below zero

I’ll try and act normal

Waiting for her

Running off would be the cruelest herb

Forgot I knew just how to be heard

Coyote with the flowering heart

Bouquet your veins till death do you part

Happiness an invisible horse

Someone please feed that strong beast before

All we have left are motherless foals

In soft bales of hay

Miracles unfold

And the catalyst shows

As a belly with your own

Honest as an oak

As sudden as flash flooding

Obsessive as smoke

Remote as the dead sea

So embarrassing

I’ll still be your coat

In colder than below zero

I’ll try and act normal

Waiting for her