A coyote and a badger use a culvert as a wildlife crossing

"I come home with a chicken or

a rabbit and sit up

singing all night with my friends.

It´s baroque, my life, and

I tell it on the mountain.

I wouldn´t trade it for yours."

from Coyote

                     by William Stafford

Link below: This is the best trail camera image I have ever seen.

2020-02-03, 7:11 PM

Russ McSpadden

@PeccaryNotPig

A coyote and a badger use a culvert as a wildlife crossing to pass under a busy California highway together. Coyotes and badgers are known to hunt together.

Spirit Badger (trip to Hafford)

"Anyone with quiet pace who

walks a gray road in the West

may hear a badger underground where   

in deep flint another time is

Caught by flint and held forever,   

the quiet pace of God stopped still."

from Walking West

by William Stafford

"Her luck
has always been bad, so she stood
to one side and let me pass, trailing
the unmistakable aroma of badger
which she mistook for my underwear,
and so she looked upward, not
to heaven but to the cracked ceiling
her husband had promised to mend,
and she sighed for the first time
in my life that sigh which would tell
me what was for dinner. 

from One My Own

by Philip Levine

full poem 

https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2006%252F01%252F10.html