Mom Woke to a Coyote Staring in Her Window

Daniel Lassell is the author of Spit (forthcoming 2021), winner of the 2020 Wheelbarrow Books Emerging Poetry Prize, as well as Ad Spot, a limited-edition chapbook (forthcoming 2021). His recent poetry can be found in Southern Humanities Review, River Styx, Grist, Colorado Review, and Prairie Schooner. In his youth he raised llamas and alpacas on a farm in Kentucky. Today he lives in Colorado. To read more of his work, visit www.daniel-lassell.com.