bearbones

  Durable   There are days  when rage is a horn and each blast blown  across a blind scree slope  […]

  Rising   Beluga whales bump  to the surface of rising waters,   knocking your grip  from time  passing, nodding […]

  Sparks*   The alpine willow’s fire burns close to the ground.   Come autumn, as each blade burns hotter,  […]

  Entangled   A sea nettle glistens at the tideline, like a fragment of ocean   left among the rocks […]

  Steadfast   As summer’s arc bends, pulling its vivid greens from the fading forests   mushrooms appear, rushing across […]

  Rendering   When you thought you had arrived finally   at the clear-eyed acceptance of loss,   a breeze […]

  Throwing Bones   For so long now you have walked your bones on a knife’s edge,   neither here […]

  Mutualism   The fireweed glows   with evening light.    As we sink against the stamens, you tally summer’s […]

    Beckoning   If a scalpel is pressed just so — at the tendon’s grip  of bone, or between […]

    Recognition    Disentangled you stand —  dripping, breathless,   stunned to see that as you  raged, spinning,   […]