bearprints and fresh snow

emotional moonlight
and the moondogs sparkle
metallic halide,

through fresh filtered spheres
illuminating new autumn ice
burning the fog

in lunar crisp clarity
the electric halo
phosphorescent

to the human spectrum
the cool slab of ivory
pulling in the naked eye

a moist new snow
in which bear and wolf
still roam

the mid-october night
as witnessed upon the powdered ridge
two sets of tracks,

both human and bear,
who is following whom;

which creature seeks
the moment of redemption?