By Charles M. Sumid     Copyright 2025     Written 2025

I. Coyote

Michigan Avenue, dawn—

she trots past the locked shops,

original citizen.

II. Evening

The bridge hums.

The loon calls.

Same key.

III. Territory

Shopping cart’s broken wheel

draws its sound-map

through empty streets.

Barred owl calls

from the fire escape—

both worlds answer.