bearbones

  Moonlit   Sometimes things align.   Yes, I’ll wait while you knock on wood and give me that look […]

Suturing A shrew moves in moonlight,tracking across the broken snow. You have felt this small, a lone heart pounding in […]

  Migration As you grasped the bony curve, lifting it from the riverbank into the shifting, slanting light, it became […]

  Ally   The day you ran from the moose, lurching off the trail to crouch behind trees,   everything […]

Signature   We’ve seen them too, the striations. Those lines in the rocks, glacial grooves cut mostly parallel like cambium, […]

Ground  Does it bother you, the grinding? Teeth marks left on bones. The tideline’s broken shells. The ground, subducting. We […]

Handler It was winter, and snowdrifts covered the frozen fens. Dogs, harnesses, gangline, sled. In a rush of steaming yips […]

Termination Dust   You stared in silence  at the MRI, at the shadowy cavitation of a patient’s brain.  It was […]

Affirmation   When the sockeye come in, choking the riffles with their crimson bodies, flashing their fins with effort  and […]

Pingo Look with me, it said, across this ice-patterned ground, past the frost boils, the polygons, the scouredshield rock. Relax. […]