bearbones

  Web   Look, it said meeting your hidden web  with a gentle rain adorning each halting step with jewels, […]

  Ripening   You almost missed it — a wild blueberry in mid-September   somehow overlooked by bears and berry […]

Prophets The day the coyotes calledwhile crossing the storm swept ridgeon the quick pebbles of their feet,a clear sky followed. […]

Hare The snowshoe hare paused just feet from where I stood,well within the borders of a tree-lined path and we […]

  Fall   Just now, under the aspen tree, you saw a spark or a sunlit flash of wing  and […]

Illusion What stump?said the bunchberry, as it shrugged crimson-stained leavesfreed, just recently, from summer’s green mask and I pointed, bemused, […]

Exchange The squirrel froze, quivering and then dashed up a tree to chitter,loudly as I knelt by its meal, or […]

Resident The porcupine’s tail tends to each track like a fistful of twigssweeping the gravel into a braided shape. It […]

  Glacier   Lacy shards chime as they meet  in ice berg waves newly launched in clouds  of blue white […]

  Humpback   As the blown spray fades above its dorsal fin a humpback slips back beneath the surface   […]