A Walk Through the Stream
STREAMS
April 7, 2019
Intensity Poem
The salmon swarm up stream
on the sides, minnow flood in
in the distance a mother bear hears the splashes
I walk through the chaos as water flutters-
everywhere I step, wets my boots a bit more.
I look down to the water,
no reflection, just noise and speed-
I'm protected by the water-
or so it seemed.
I freeze
a grizzly standing before me,
with its back turned away, ears perked.
I slowly try to back up while stretching big and tall
Does this even work with Grizzly's?
It all slows down, slow motion,
the rocks are sliding off of my boots-
a boulder half out of the water,
catches my calf by surprise
and I see my life flash before me,
gravity knocks me back to reality
and I black out,
Am I dead?
Sarah Casey
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