Even when you see it coming, leave tread prints behind, you'll wonder about this moment, this curve at dusk, the dog chasing the coyote across a field, the coyote losing ground each time he checks his pursuer, all the time running toward the road, toward the woods on the other side, all of us thinking we have enough time. Then brakes yield that rubbery smell of trying. In that instant the coyote sees you, his eyes hold all he knows. When you stand on the shoulder, you'll see the pool form, the eyes glaze over, the body heat shimmer into the air; how fast light subtracts itself.