Water the Rocks Make by David McElroy

Author:David McElroy [McElroy, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Alaska Press

A quick plunge of his head and up comes

a red flopping in his mouth. Motor-drive

cameras, each lens big as your leg, track

the head shake, water spray, and turn, his back

to the viewers, his skill at stripping skin,

meat, and eggs, feeding these tiny steps

to winter survival. Gulls gather

for scraps, and magpies peck scat

for tapeworms. “They’re not human

so we give them numbers,” a ranger

informs with the gravitas science inspires.

But the four-year-old sub-adult 284

splashing in the shallows, or like a hippo

snorkeling the lower river, climbing trees,

yawning, false charging through camp,

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