Inuksuk Hunter

Inuksuk Hunter Seen, and unseen, white in, stars out Snow slices air. Seal Mukluks shuffling, toes in seal hair Electrons knife into ice, tangentially chill From aurora’s greenish lights dancing a whistle’s will. The Inuit hunter Clothed inside out, and outside in by caribou hollow hair Feels belly sweat trickle, get sucked in by air From steady dog team gait Across the tectonic tundra plate Of Mother’s molten gut. Shafting silver frost, stalagmites up To startles In sparkles. His eyes stare through slits of bone Crossing frigid fault lines of stone. He listens to language of snow and of gale Senses ancestral tongue speaking from drifting trail. The snow squeaks of density, depth and of place. Homeward bound in swirling might As frozen asteroids in cosmic flight Crater his pupils in lunar impact Nothing but blue pained light Seen before the end of sight In a day of night.