# The Tribes of Dog

Author: Huskyteer
Tags: Canine, Coyote, Dingo, Dog, Jackal, Maned Wolf, Poem, Poetry, Wolf, african wild dog

#1 of Poetry

I can't draw, so you get this verbal painting instead.

The Alpha Pair begins the song  
Calling to the clans along the snow  
Whale-ivory sinew-strung on whiter pelts.

The Old Man Tawny walks from the Dreaming  
On hard cracked pads; shakes off the red dust  
Curls his yellow tail, and sits.

Two black-backed tricksters next  
Across the border of the old world and the new  
Clasp sly paws to whisper mischiefs in each other's ears.

The Painted matriarch  
Clicks and sparks with shells and beads  
Freckling her pied-cloud-constellated fur.

Lastly, the maned, masked Mayan  
That shy high-stepping apple-eater of the pampas  
Turquoise-clawed and quetzal-quilled.

Joined in a ring, they lift their white throats taut  
And fill the firelight with a starry note  
The song of the Tribes of Dog.

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/k1V07o7m
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