Another Story about Me

By Corey Mesler

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The night I saw her naked I heard a coyote. It was the first coyote I had ever heard. I want to talk about that coyote, what his life must be like, running through the thinning woods, tripping into the sewer pipes, killing the occasional rat or small child. God loves the coyote. Like the raccoon he can adapt. Like the eagle he has presence. I cannot adapt, I hear you saying. I hear you telling the others about my need, my repressive salubriousness. I hear the whispers about my sere, malefic apparatus. And every night before I go to sleep I try and remember that wild cracky sound like a plaintive horn deep inside the fissures of darkness. It bedogs me. I try to remember the coyote that’s in me, the restless raconteur. And I try to remember her naked, the soft declivities, the ragged tattoos, her effluvia.

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Corey Mesler has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. His novel, Talk, was released in 2002, and a chapbook of poems, Chin-Chin in Eden, in 2003. His second novel, We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, is due out in December. He runs Burke’s Book Store in Memphis TN.

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