bearbones

    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  […]

  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 […]