Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emanuel Von Lee, executive editor of Emergence Magazine.

Each week we feature a new interview, narrated essay, or story, exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.

C. Marie Furman is the author of Camped Beneath the Dam, Poems, and Co-Editor of Native Voices. She resides in the mountains of West Central Idaho.

In this essay, Seymoury recalls her encounter with a coyote whose leg was caught in a trap in the southern Montana prairie.

As she navigates the two legacies of her identity, native and white,

she considers what it means to be trapped and what it means to be free. Autumn, Berto's Front Country.

The sky and landscape are buckskin and blue.

I am driving my Ford pickup down the roads that encircle the ranch I am living on,

caretaking, the little work other than keeping a fire going, and feeding the owner's horses

is required of me.

I am an hour from the nearest town of mention.

From almost anywhere on the ranch, I see no neighbors.

I am out driving just to be out, to be looking across the vast distances that have always

filled me.

This is a land devoid of structures, of obvious human intervention.

Here I can imagine.

I can dream without intrusion of even a fence line.

And those dreams are never lonesome things.

They are filled with stories.

Memory.

The call of metal arc. The huff of a doe muley, the song of coyotes.

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