{"id":705,"date":"2022-09-14T21:02:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T01:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=705"},"modified":"2022-09-14T21:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T01:02:51","slug":"coyote-cry-nature-and-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2022\/09\/14\/coyote-cry-nature-and-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyote Cry: Nature and Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cCold air \/ dries her muddy footprints to a path \/ of hard, open mouths. If she retraces her steps, \/ the footprints will eat her\u201d (Jones, 23).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Coyote Cry <\/span><\/i>narrates a man speaking to an unknown person by telling them the story of a woman running through hills. The unnamed woman cannot retrace her footsteps because doing so would obscure her story. <\/span>Her feet would not fit into the original prints neatly, creating a shapeless and unidentifiable blob. She would lose her story\u2014her footprints\u2014by trying to come back the way she came. These lines seem to urge the reader away from retracing their own footsteps, either literally or metaphorically. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Along with her footsteps holding a story, nature is also holding her story. Eventually, the footsteps will wash away with the rest of the mud, debris, and grass of the hills. However, she will have forever impacted the story of the hills with her steps. The mud will build over differently if she walks back over her steps, changing the way the world keeps her story. Jones writes, a line later, \u201cRagged pines snatch her cries and keep them. \/ That\u2019s why I cry\u201d (23). <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps Jones is saying that, much like her footsteps in the mud, her cries and steps will later impact the narrator. Despite the narrator never visiting these woods nor knowing if this woman exists outside their imagination, they know that the way nature holds stories will later come back to tell another story. Her cries influence his cries, and her steps may influence his as time goes on. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cCold air \/ dries her muddy footprints to a path \/ of hard, open mouths. If she retraces her steps, \/ the footprints will eat her\u201d (Jones, 23).\u00a0 Coyote Cry narrates a man speaking to an unknown person by telling them the story of a woman running through hills. The unnamed woman cannot retrace her … Continue reading Coyote Cry: Nature and Stories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344620],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}