You can't bury them all by Patrick Woodcock

You can't bury them all by Patrick Woodcock

Author:Patrick Woodcock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2016-04-02T00:00:00+00:00


Skyward Antlers

As I stand at the base

of the pole, looking skyward, I swear

I can hear them. A herd of caribou

crossing the lake near Colville. Grunting

and farting and cracking the ice

with their hooves. They are heading

westwards

into the wind and snow.

Soon their rotting

pelage will be discarded

to blanket snowdrifts

and rifts closer to shore.

One by one they will fall.

One by one their antlers will be severed,

cleaned and fastened upon this pole.

Against

the joyous swing of the sun, this wondrous

monstrosity to all that is white

casts a shadowed staircase upon the snow

to guide beheaded caribou

away

from us all.



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