Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Where Wolves Have Slept (JM) (published version)

(Joseph MacRae, published in Mindful Poetry Moments, third edition, edited by Stacey Simms and Eddie Gonzalez, The Well (in partnership with NPR's On Being Project), 2022. From April 28, 2021, a response to prompt James Wright's "A Blessing", from On Being/The Well's Mindful Poetry Gathering.)


Where Wolves Have Slept

(Alaska journal, Noyes Island, 1993;

after James Wright)



It was hidden in plain sight.
On ground still warm, as

     morning wakens
     where wolves have slept
     a tuft of fur
     left in wild deerhearts

It is a blessing.

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