Coyote

A face, a flank – lit up

 

from his road kill hunt, oblivious.

 

As if we had called him into the beams

 

to break our cover, not his,

 

wanted the shock of him loping through.

 

 

Charlie Druce has lived in London since 1987 and works in TV production. He grew up in rural Worcestershire and finds the deep rooted sense of that is never far from the surface. Human relationship with the environment and its nature drives much of his writing.

‘Adder’ was first published in the poetry and prose anthology A Shake of Stars (Morton Press, 2008).

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