Home Is Blue Dust

“Home is Blue Dust” Running scared Sweat Running down, body covered Colliding with and torn root Feeling fallowing hands and knees Bear grow bellows behind Prey moves faster Harder to see Bear claws dig into dirt Increasing speed The human moves mouth full of dead pine Running is fast confusing Looking back Running to the clearing Grass and sunlight A hunter tires. Runner halts doubles back Runs back down at an angle wide Falls sliding face down and tumbles Scrape, gash, bruise, thud Off the side of tree Pine ancient peels off a layer Fresh sap oozes There in the distance Quiet under the trees A broken vase of blue dust Extraterrestrial Attraction a spell said to the silence The bear claws at the human’s eyes