Friday, November 05, 2010

Today at Polaris

Today a wisp of fog
blew across jackknife mountain
like the memory of your hair.

Today a loon mourned
the length of the summer sun
at Lake Aleknagik,
and I wanted to put
that call in a box
and mail it to you
with the label,
"I and Alaska
are finally one."

Today a grizzly bear reared
on the far shore.
I admired its mass,
its maw, its claw,
its eyes flat as skipping stones.

It was beautiful
and I wished it was closer.

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