The Bears
That summer the bears came
down out of the Chugach
Mountains, turning away
from the glacier-fed,
salmon-filled streams, down
from the silent foothills, out
of their forest lairs, down,
down, stumbling, finally,
into our town like gold
nuggets tumbling through
a sluice box, until like any other
refugees, there was nowhere else
left for them to go.
Paradigm (2008)
