A Well-Traveled Coyote

A Well-Traveled Coyote

by Nora Naranjo-Morse

John F. Kennedy

        New York City

            I saw him across the lobby

                 flight 161

                     St. Louis

                         Albuquerque.

Coyote looked in control

        cool

             fitting right into the city

                 smiling when a pretty woman passed him

                     figuring out his flight

                          making calculations from behind

                              the New York Times.

Slick

         right down to his Tony Lamas

             Coyote

                 I'd recognize him anywhere

                     Copenhagen

                          New York

                              Gallup.

People say

you can dress 'em up

        but once a coyote

             always a coyote.