bearbones

Pandora’s Heart I.  I could open it for you, said the gyrfalcon, all talons, and I remembered. The spruce branch […]

Geography* for Stella Like sutures in a skull  we have stitched ourselves together two lives in apposition at the measured […]

Portal Some are hollows, said the trees, and will take you  entire. Others, like boughs, reach in all directions and […]

Creek Dream When the winter creek gurgles, snow-hushed and ice-bellied  I wonder if bear hears it too, but merry and […]

Sentinel Once a raven with a yellow ball flew by  as though it held the winter sun in its beak  […]

Blood Moon Look, said the moon rising like smoke above the coire  to gild the inky breath of  snow while […]

Devotions Meanwhile, rut-tugged moose press against velvet sky dens sounding hoofed ridges  into aspen-tined bends, earth-spruced  and wallowed. Meanwhile, scents […]

Ocean Sound I left the mountains for ocean sound. Every year I do this, chasing a childhood  glimpse so bright […]

Summer Bones It must have happened with my back turned to the sea, head full of green-song and forget-me-not blue. […]