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Debris (Moab, Utah) The wind rattled the ends ofthe piñón pines like rattlesnake tails. Green coyote scat wrinkled a dune ridge. I sat under eye sockets of wind-chiseled rock, sifting through the dry remains of his old meals: black and white hairs, a needle-sized rib-bone, a cross of vertebrae, several berry seeds, a broken shell of skull, a matchstick oflegbone, a blue breast feather, and a claw of crow. The remnants of what is left behind tell what is needed to survive. For the coyote: many mice, a lizard, and parts oftwo birds. For me: an orange peel, scraps ofpaper, a worn-out ballpoint pen deposited in a roadside garbage can. Paul C. Brooke 77 ...

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