Trickster,
Trickster
Melinda Fay
Coyote
trots across my soul
dangling my illusions from her jaws
like a newborn lamb
she gnaws her way
through my dreams
nightwalking behind me
along the icy edges of oblivion
squatting
in the white ash of my memory
she uncorks
my bottles of fear
strewing the contents
in the dirt
like a streak of vomit across the night sky
Coyote
beckons me
look closer
i see
myself a prisoner
in 44 broken mirrors
each shard
mocks bits of me
makes a simulacrum of me
i stumble backwards and fall
to the other side of the night
and land impaled
on frozen pieces of coyote laughter
she taunts me
she's daring me
to dance
outside
my cage of silver bones
from Tribes Issue 4