Old Coyote published in Origami Condom

Old Coyote was just published in the Evolving Issue of
Origami Condom. This issue has a great artwork for the cover.

OLD COYOTE

He’s now at the age where
his wobbling howl uses a walker
to hobble over the mountains,
the spark in his eyes is so dim
it’s only seen on moonless nights.
But still, he waits for the full moon
and howls a dark tune on a rocky slope
reading the stars of the Milky Way
like jazz notes scribbled on a napkin.

Copyright Dan Campbell 2007

The Afterlife - published in VISIONS, June 2007

It's a hundred degrees in the shade;
walls are splattered with grafitti
in a foreign tongue, a trio of blind
angels tap their crooked sticks
down the dirt road, gaunt saints
roast mangy corn on an open
fire in tin roof shacks and silent,
scowling cherubs juggle cinders
and cobs. Then finally, above us,
the blare of trumpets, we think
at first, but it's the horn from
a rust-coated bus stacked with
chickens and iguanas in cages
driving us forward into a cloud
of dust.

Copyright 2007 Dan Campbell