Chuck Toll - Coyote Ways

Coyotes are perhaps best known for flaunting
Boundaries of every sort. Most folks agree
Their behavior does not showcase healthy family
Values. To challenge such consensus is daunting.

Coyotes mate for life, or till their pups are grown,
And faithful they remain. Even alpha leaders
Who could assert their choice in breeders
Instead respect others’ unions, and their own.

Coyote couples are domestic to the core.
They tend their pups between their labors,
Nuzzle often, rarely feud with neighbors,
Hold sing-alongs in the moonscape they adore.

Wary of man’s world but certainly not quitters,
Coyotes don’t run, they just bear larger litters.

Chuck Toll

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