bearbones

  Design   The fern opens by the wood pile   sinuous and surprising   an act less about choice […]

  Passing   The cloud moves its cold body across the sky and with one great inhale saps the warmth […]

  Herald   The Inuit say  when the malikkaat unfold  summer is coming   and you long to trust this […]

Octopus Tree Reach this way, said the octopus tree, her clever arms thrust earth deepas if she worked nets cast […]

  Raven   The raven’s dense music rings   like stones when it falls   as quorks  and gurwallups   […]

Stay A merlin grips the branch with a lightbut taloned touch, unhurried like this season of ice and sky and […]

  Safe   The eagle climbs in spirals above the valley ascending its thermal staircase with ease, a flash in […]

  Punctuation     As you measure your days from the suspension point, the dog rolls belly-up into full gravity […]

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

Spectrum This is not a poem about clouds, or weather,or even the sunbut about the way light behaves just before […]