(Joseph MacRae, 2003)
Where Wolves Have Slept
(Alaska journal, Noyes Island 1993)
How welcome is dawn on a day off!
To walk this beach, dew still fresh. Dew
holding wolf tracks, leaving the meadow.
It's straight ahead, just a few steps up,
overlooks the beach. Lively deer hearts
everywhere. Everywhere but two bedded
bowls, deer hearts pressed to the ground.
Wolf beds, still warm! Must have heard me
coming, and left two sets of tracks in
the morning dew. And a tuft of fur, right
there. I pick it up. And put down words,
to remember:
Morning Wakens
where wolves have slept.
A tuft of fur
left in wild deer hearts.
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