This, a Kind of Prayer

By Kendall Evans

24 March 2008

That my skeletal remains might commingle

With a dire wolf's bones

The both of us clenched

In gnarled roots

Of a living tree—

An errant eagle perched

In the branches above

Copyright © 2008 Kendall Evans

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Kendall Evans is the author of 4 poetry chapbooks: "Separate Destinations" (with David C. Kopaska-Merkel), "Poetry Red-Shifted in the Eyes of a Dragon", "I Feel So Schizophrenic, the Starship's Aft-Brain Said" and "In Deepspace Shadows". His short story "Rufio's Song" appears in the current issue of SPACE AND TIME.