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I.
when you startled me
on the running trail
proud coyote
it was astonishing
a fusion
of mystery
and wonder

should i take my shoes off
or race away?

rather
in the dirt
we danced
for a moment

your eyes
bright stars
distant and defiant
scanning prospects
you’re fearless
that’s why
they fear you

II.
your coat is
like josephs
tan brown grey bold
nimble are
your steps
your body
relaxed upright
but alert
exquisite creature
wily and warring

your survival
a struggle
like Isreal’s
master of environments
intelligent adaptive flexible
student of change
outspoken nonconformist


i’ve heard
your battle cries
resisting
your wow-oo-wows
insisting
your diaspora life
persisting
your existence
haunting
stubborn and unbending
taking your blessings

how I wished
my heart blazed
like yours
then you
politely nodded
and
trotted away

III.
in that moment
i remembered
the dusty trails
the cries
and calling
of my god
from Bethlehem
to Calvary
justice insisting
death resisting
life persisting
prophetic and
pragmatic
chutzpa
and holy fire
grace
and mystery
transfusing
jesus,will you
transform me?
dance with me until the fire returns
dance with me until the fire returns

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from Call & Response, released September 24, 2016

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Dale Carl Fredrickson Denver, Colorado

Dale is a poet from Denver, Colorado. He’d like to inspire the entire world but finds that inspiring himself and his family and friends is work enough. He writes and speaks about beauty and misery and his favorite story is the one about how love surprises us in the end. He fails a lot. On his best days, he lives by Samuel Beckett’s motto, “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” ... more

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