| A Similar Fate
A neighbor and I
talk about hunting.
Somewhere between
shame and the exultation
of seeing an angel,
he tells of killing a bear.
It had turned
to stare at him,
its head bigger
than his chest,
fur rippling in the wind
like an onyx tide.
"We didn't take the meat,
just skinned it
for the pelt and head.
It's in the attic now,
gathering dust, flea bitten.
Or maybe Judy's thrown
out the ghost."
I tell him of a man killed
And eaten—his trailer
crushed like a Pepsi can—
by a bear in Colorado
after a winter harsh
as the Arctic.
My neighbor leaves,
whistling, as if his shot
had saved a poor soul
from a similar fate. |
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- Robert Cooperman has published two books of poetry.
His first, In The House of Percy Byshe Shelly was published by The University
Press of Florida. In The Colorado Gold Fever Mountains, his second book, was
published by Western Reflections. He also reviews music for Keltic Fringe.
- Beauty for Ashes Poetry Review ©1996-2000
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