January 13, 2024, 11:16 PM
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2024, 11:18 PM by Dusty Rose.)
All welcome! But tagging @Reverie because we talked about another.
Dusty Rose was settling in among the willows the way he settled in anywhere: with relish and aplomb, and no small amount of noise-making. Most of it was singing in his odd coyote way: shrill and sonorous in turns, with much yipping and baying to punctuate more salient points.He was burying a bone. And old one! But one he rather liked; one he had taken for himself from a past meal the willow wolves had shared before he came to be one. It sat beside him in the snow while his shovel-like paws carved through the frozen earth exactly the way a piece of paper wouldn't. While he worked, he sang,
"Coffee grows in white-oak trees,
the river flows with brandy,
the rocks in the hills are covered in gold
and the girls are sweeter than — shit — candy.
He'd dashed his paw against a rock, and he extracted it to lick fussily at his smarting toes. His song was just a little mutinous when he went on:
"Shady Grove, my lil' miss,
Shady Grove my darlin',
Shady Grove, my lil' miss,
I'm goin' back to Harlan,
Here, the coywolf added a few cackling ow-ow-ow's for flair.
* Dusty is a little shit who is always up in people's business. Feel free to bite him and inflict minor injuries without asking permission.
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the rocks in the hills are covered in gold - by Dusty Rose - January 13, 2024, 11:16 PM
RE: the rocks in the hills are covered in gold - by Reverie - January 14, 2024, 11:28 AM
RE: the rocks in the hills are covered in gold - by Dusty Rose - January 22, 2024, 01:40 PM
RE: the rocks in the hills are covered in gold - by Reverie - January 25, 2024, 09:51 PM
RE: the rocks in the hills are covered in gold - by Dusty Rose - January 28, 2024, 11:27 PM