“Toe’osh: A Laguna Coyote Story,” written by Leslie Marmon Silko, shows the reader an interesting way in which a poem can be structured. The poem’s form is consisted of stanzas varying in line length, most of which are composed of medium-length lines to keep the reader reading at a consistent pace. However, there are certain lines that are longer than others, causing the reader to slow down at these lines. The majority of lines in this poem are enjambed, while still accompanied by end-stopped lines at the end of each stanza as if to end that particular part of the story. Additionally, in the first four stanzas, we notice that “coyote” is used as a proper name when referring to the animal, but is never capitalized as if that is his name. This seems particularly interesting, as if that was how the people in the author’s culture referred to animals – by using their animal names as their proper names, without including the word “the.” The first stanza particularly stands out because of their unusual form. Line 4, “and drink Spanada by the stove.”, is moved to the right of the page, not aligning with lines 1 through 3. This conveys to the reader that line 4 is a piece of added information, not necessarily directly related to the first 3 lines, but serves as a small piece of additional interesting information. Lines 7 through 9 serve a similar purpose in the second stanza. These three lines elaborate on the coyote’s “ratty old fur coat” – information that is not completely necessary, yet serves an appreciated purpose in the beginning of this poem. Silko uses dactyls as the first and last words of the next stanza as means to emphasize that “things like that/are always happening to him,/that’s what he said,”. The beginning word “anyhow” implies that the reader is moving on from the last points made in the previous stanza, and the ending word “anyway” seems to permit the reader to possibly not ta