bearbones

  Haunted   Ever since the bear passed like ink   over the steep and ordinary slope of afternoon   […]

  after Wild Geese*   The reason  you don’t have to be good   is that none of us is […]

  Map   You aren’t listening said the tree   the map isn’t found in a numbering of needles, in […]

  Skin Song   A gust rattles the leafless branches  and buzzes each curl of bark drawing you in    […]

Ordinary It was by chance I saw it:yesterday’s ordinary mud-puddle rock trapped by the in-breath of a star-wheeled skyand the […]

Loosening From within the bramble and slick, spring mudstartled grouse thunder and wintered boughs break. Even the falcon – that […]

    Forgiven   You’re forgiven, said the moon   with a wink at the dawn and a meaningful look  […]

  Spring   Between cornice and crevasse you have drifted   burying what hurts  in a rough sliding thunder   […]

  Chickadee   Look again it sang look again   while bending its sensible slide whistle notes to wrap  around […]

  The Tending   He paused at the bending hand-shaped like the sea    when it draws down the sky […]