The Poetry Show: Raven and Coyote

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Is Coyote at Your Door?

 

 

Janet has found a marvelous selections of poems on "The Trickster" -- an active character in Native American mythologies. Sometimes as a Raven. Sometimes as Coyote. Carolyn Dunn, Ben Stickle, Peter Blue Cloud, and Charles DeLint contribute. Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case This Episode Recorded May 14, 2025

Coyote, Coyote

by Peter Blue Cloud

 

Coyote, Coyote, Please tell me
What is a shaman?
A shaman I don’t know
anything about.
I’m a doctor, myself.
When I use medicine,
it’s between me,
my patient,
and the Creation.
Coyote, Coyote, Please tell me
What is power?
It is said that power
is the ability to start
your chainsaw
with one pull.
Coyote, Coyote, Please tell me
What is magic?
Magic is the first taste
of ripe strawberries and
magic is a child dancing
in a summer’s rain.
Coyote, Coyote, Please tell me
Why is Creation?
Creation is because I
went to sleep last night
with a full stomach,
and when I woke up
this morning,
everything was here.
Coyote, Coyote, Please tell me
Who you belong to?
According to the latest
survey, there are certain
persons who, in poetic
or scholarly guise,
have claimed me like
a conqueror’s prize.
Let me just say
once and for all,
just to be done:
Coyote,
he belongs to none.

 

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