Nasua narica
White-nosed coati
Renee Angle
but the three madents
of the coati
diamond head prehensile
and the rabe in a bush
with its own smell coati
coat it cootie condom catcher
cody mundi mundo menudo
hospitalized a whole
pack on the trail trilobite
and like a baby kept one
held one peek-a-boo to breast
pocket best leak of mucous
raccoon or primate the
hair hot soft
barn height and indivisible as
a reptile cone tittered
crumbs from the nose
bloody ones came rubber
and binned it some eating
some early guest of how
to find it a little made
for tee vee movie with a cherry
script he heard his art bark
and kicked it back to miss it
kissed it combined again
asphalt to ashes
animalia chordata
vertebrata mammalia carnivora
caniformia procyonidae
nasua narica
surmised in sunshine
dental formula as in raccoon
fern and focus dune among dune
bike ride the ape into
the structure of the blacktop
under parts purchased in the
crevice of a tree
mama to mama grooved
the inner face moist and
touch it timorous blanched
out awares in arizona still
fucked so hard and fucked
it up
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Renee Angle resides in Tucson, Arizona where she works for The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Her poems have been published in Diagram, Practice New Art + Writing, Sonora Review, EOAGH, I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women, and in the chapbook Lucy Design in the Papal Flea (dancing girl press). She last saw a Coati from her car window on the way to Mount Lemmon.