Th Bear Dance is in Spring

a knotted cord

is wrapped

over a hollow log

an a stick

pulled quickly back and forth

th grunt of a female bear in heat

women pick their partners

saw a bear this summer

a blond bear, white tips like dipped in bleach

undercoat dark

cartoon Yogi eye-roll expression of terror

before it fled up mountain

used to be a bear would provide

warmth and fat

for th winter

now a trophy head

or body

th hunt shops a forest

of trophy heads

in Minnesota a shop

of thousands

hunt shop of hunt shops

glassy eyes beaming

ghosts of th forest