Coyote: "Meeting Song Dog"
What Truth will be found following your fading path of the past?
A cold Winter morning: a grey ghost moves about quietly.
Following the fading traces of a phantom not yet seen.
What Truth will be found following your fading path of the past?
I took these photos February 23, 2025. I was hiking at my local conservation area and saw fresh tracks in the snow: Coyote. I followed the tracks hoping to see the Coyote.
I followed the tracks through the woods and out onto a main trail. I saw the tracks turned north. I saw something standing in the middle of the trail.
The Coyote had stopped and was looking back at me. We both stood and stared.
After minute or so, the Coyote trotted away up the trail. Nice to meet you Song Dog.
English - Korean:
Coyote = 코요테 / Ko-yo-teh
Track (footprint) = 발자국 / bal-jagook (literally “foot” “mark.”)
Nice sighting! The living haunt the ghosts of the past and in their dreams the ghosts are troubled.
I really like those photos Neil, of the empty path, and then of Coyote. Just as I wrote those words, a big red-tail hawk soared past my window and landed on the top of the pine tree. Nature...endless joy and awe to be had.