The Bear and the Ballerina

grizzly grazing a meadow pretending not to notice the dancer wind shifting-it stands horribly- tall sniffs the air pivots nonchalantly methodically swaggers appetite enhanced moment ignited by the ancient guide it charges-bloody eyed stomping the meadow blossoms it swats at the dancer again -again and again as she flits toward the cliff brute tumbling over to its cold slag death ballerina dancing over the screaming crag