Rapids growl under ice.
Warm blood freezes on the snow.
Dry seeds chatter in the trees.
What hunts again tonight?
Stooped back, snout and ears
like a boar,
alone and cold, ravenous.
Living bones crookt
with pain.
Copyright © 2018 by Michael B. Smetzer
Abandoned Adobe near Taos, New Mexico – photo by Vera Lisa Smetzer.
