Friday, June 24, 2016

black bears and humans

Bears and Seasons

June is a bad time to see bears in the mountains,
to even see their scat on the trail,
though at this time adolescent bears can and do manifest in the piedmont,
seeking their place in a world that does not guarantee a place for them,

mid-Summer on, mountain bears seem to feel “Winter is coming,”
and so they haunt the lower valleys
where fat and sugar carbs can help them bulk up,

I imagine that now exercise and salads call to them,
how like humans when youth starts to leave us,
only when they need to be more decadent 
will we see them frequent more of the human worlds.

Humans bulk up after middle age,
but there’s not a sleep that calls to us
that is regenerative like that for the bears.

by Henry H. Walker
June 21, ‘16

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