bearbones

Solstice   And then you look up stilled by sky   suspended like a winter bear beneath snowy tree asleep […]

  Propelled   Snow settles gently  on the pages of December, softening the old stories, blurring the edges as night […]

  Rattled   Just as the earth beneath you shifts again   the sky fills with winded fingers at full […]

Possibility   Owlsong fills the forest  like a full breath  blown through hollow bones while stars spin the sky  in […]

  Peeling   Geese cut overhead like a joyful knife, skinning a winter’s dawn,   and you look down  at […]

    Fathoms   There will be days  when    no matter how wise or willing your step   only […]

  Reach   Within the cadaver colors  of early winter   needle ice  grows steadily in crystal bones   pushing […]

  Teeth   They say that dreams of losing teeth  are about a power lost, as if our half-moon row […]

  Emerging   The mountain within you stands.   Through the blinding sting of graupel or a whip wind whirl […]

  Shaken   In the airless between you hear it —   the earthquake approaching   rumbling a visceral roar  […]