Tricks of twilight

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the refuge of yon cabin ended in collapse
as it may have been meant to
from its shared erection

the disavowed trickster is nothing but
the thief of enlightenment
the fallen teacher of human cunning

coyote snickers at human tracking
fearful divination sought in entrails
cowrie shells or matrix grids of probability

a remnant of crow feathers
smudges the sunset in a swirling
web of smoldering ashes
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