Bruce A. Jacobs – Ⅳ
Coming Up on September 11 on a Train in the Canadian Rockies
Pines spear the air
like beds of green feathered nails
or fir combs built to stroke
the wind free of fresh badness.
Somewhere deep in the slopes,
well-fed men pay to kill
20-year-old grizzly bears
for fun. They say a half-ton bear falls
like a building. When the men ride roads home
to newspapers that talk of the anniversary,
they will wonder why the world
feels like a stranger.
Pines spear the air
like beds of green feathered nails
or fir combs built to stroke
the wind free of fresh badness.
Somewhere deep in the slopes,
well-fed men pay to kill
20-year-old grizzly bears
for fun. They say a half-ton bear falls
like a building. When the men ride roads home
to newspapers that talk of the anniversary,
they will wonder why the world
feels like a stranger.