Rabbit lounges
as the world goes
haywire, hopping from
event to event
Coyote talks the others
into a journey
that forms a cleft
in the earth
Fox nips and bites,
tugs his way through
accidentally scampering
as a world cries out.

[JD DeHart is the author of The Truth About Snails, a chapbook.  His main blog isjddehart.blogspot.com and he is a staff writer for Verse-Virtual.]