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I’ve just read a story
about a bear
the story
is good
but the author
has never seen
a bear
just a man
pale and slow and enormous
in a bathrobe
nothing like the bears
I’ve seen so fast
and flexible and disarming
as sad as the story
about a miscarriage
and recovery and finding
a home and knowing
glances with strangers
who maybe know
and maybe don’t
but who am I
to judge a bear
awaking
from prehistoric
slumber hungry
for salmon
more than me
BeAR
David Morgan O'Connor