the bone dance - Skye Blaine

[Larry Robinson]

the bone dance
 

400-plus pounds

the claws   the claws—

as long as a finger!

the brown bear sits on 

a sun-warmed rock

in the glacial stream

watches   waits 

with hunter’s poise

 
the salmon

surges upstream

bucks the torrent’s force

called back home

headed to spawn

vaults the chute

 
paw stretches wide

a powerful swipe

with the rack of claws

she snags the sockeye

bear maw shreds

chunks fall back 

lost to the water

translucent bones

glint in the sunlight—

 
crunched, gulped

fish becomes bear

 
 
	- Skye Blaine
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