bearbones

  For Mary Oliver   The alder twig skidded to a stop on a hoar frosted slope wearing winter bird […]

  Arms   When you lift the young pup — blind, burrowing all belly — it settles like a child […]

  Winter   Winter has pulled its cap  over the sky   freezing in edges wrapping your ridge lines in […]

  Newcomer   An elephant now rests in the meadow by the alder patch   its great trunk unrolled  between […]

  Unrepeatable   It can be difficult to stay   even as the sky fills with feathers in colors swept  […]

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 […]