Long Grizzlies Poems

I.
Cammy Gonzalez was born in L.A.,
a child of sun and surf, you could say.
She never had that much skill with the books,
but had been blessed with abundant good looks.

Like many women with looks that men...

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Eighteen hundred and three begins U.S. destinies.
Merriwether Lewis and his comrade, William Clark, agrees –
They will go forth, avoid Frenchmen, fighting growling grizzlies.
To find a water trade route that flows west to the Pacific seas.
Louis...

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Alligators, Aardvarks; Arctic fox and hare. Also Armadillos and Asses will be there!

Bobcats, Beavers, Boars; One Blue whale will do! Bovines and a Booby (maybe 2)!

Caribou & Camels; *Cavies & a *Coot; Cottontails, Chipmunks, Chinchillas...

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He was born a bouncing baby boy in the year 1975 in Hampton Virginia.

To two loving parents Ann Iverson and Allen Broughton.


While growing up in Hampton, the nick name "Bubba Chuck" was given to this...

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 Part 3

9th Delerium: Emptyness
Water wheels in wastelands... turning,
drowning relics in the slum
Rumpled rags of fashioned burlap... burning,
lit by bandits blind and dumb
Pastured prisons, ponies bridled ... yearning,
forest fairies under thumb
Sounds inside of cauldrons coughing......

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The late may sunlight is bathing a monument of Nature
so colossal in sculpted vertical structure
that it may very well be the palace complex of forgotten supermen,
stories from my childhood pastor of biblical Petra
discovered by Crusaders,...

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This is based on a true event, however
I have only speculated on what the bear was thinking.

A story is told in Canada's North,
By the Black and Grizzly Bears,
Of the day that one of them stumbled...

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Dark days, the ecilpse
I'm like an owl
Asking who?
Deep in the astral's...
Mind of wisdom and,
I slit that serpent into two!
Right and left parts,
Forming vessels of man and woman 
My membranes splitting  
Neurons swift-ing, reconnecting,
And I...

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She was taken by bears, that was the consensus,
dragged off in her sleeping bag; tracks confirmed.

Later the child was eaten, but not before she died of old age.

She lodged with the Grizzlies, growing sturdy, unusually...

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But, my friend said, if Goldilocks was alive today her story would be different:
we’re just so used to the fairy tale message, the simplified right and wrong of it.

Women today are too afraid to walk...

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She was taken by bears;
that was the unlikely consensus -
dragged off in her sleeping bag, 
tracks confirmed.

She lodged with the grizzlies, 
growing sturdy, unusually hirsute
for a human girl, 
but pretty in a wide-bottomed way.
Eventually she...

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People who give bear hugs
are very charming people to me,
always expressing themselves
open and affectionately,
it doesn't matter if they're
male or female or
if their black of white,
after feeling down and then
getting hugged you suddenly
feel loved and feather...

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The earth shakes, quakes; 
belches up ash, rock and smoke;
spitting tsunami’s and cyclone winds.

Here and there, 
extinct species reappear, 
as if they’d been spewed from cavern’s, at earth’s core; 
perhaps they’ve been hiding for centuries.

As...

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About the lives of bears for years
A Czech and Pole were keen.
But neither had in their careers
A grizzly ever seen.

They therefore flew to Yellowstone
With data they'd compiled
To find and study on their own
Some grizzlies in...

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about 25k of DNA
that's all we got
for expressions to say
but more than a lot

adenine and cytosine, 
long to interlace,
guanine and thymine
to make a living base

all stewed in nucleotides
helixed turns so linked
is what makes life's ride
to...

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He was a gangly kid. Ugly on the upside.
Unmemorable, until the day he died.
Suddenly, he was totally everyone’s best friend.
They try to one-up each other with “Timmy” stories.

Why do we do this?  What is...

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Three truant scholars spending our sabbaticals
in crisp Colorado, we all re-read Walden,
dared to drink from streams so icy clear
the fish seemed suspended in mid-air.
Our flimsy nylon shelters shielded us
from what weather there was to worry...

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Lions, tigers and bears alarm me, no-brainer!
Zookeepers seem to like them and circus trainers.
Some blokes put gray in your hair - like Freddy Krueger
but strokes are not funny, I panic 'round cougars.

Pythons, parrots and apes...

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When we remember that we are one,
feeling the emphatic soul connection
of the other animals, extending love
to the raccoons, foxes, mice, spiders,
grasshoppers, cobras, sharks, grizzlies ...

When we remember soul is more important than outside packaging,
when we...

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at 6:18 a.m. there was a loud crash in the woods 
It startled Ed due to the hours of silent prelude
He lifted his Browning 1885 high wall to his shoulder
Thinking he was about to get...

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I know if I could ever reach you,

i'd come to say I'd love to meet you...

In the days that lie beneath the open face,

in the simplest ways we live in our craze-
and the wildest braves...

They...

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Not noted for its stature--      
Most everything is bigger--       
But nothing found in nature   
Is more vicious than a chigger.  ...

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We're on an Alaska cruise - Hoonah Hoonah
Seeing many scenic views - all de Hoonah day
Gonna sail all night - gonna sail all day 
Spending money in the tourist shops - all de Hoonah day...

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Buttered pancakes, hot cocoa, cinnamon sticks,
Knitted neck shawls, all buttoned up jackets, "Phew,"
Some are ice skating, or skiing, and sledding,
               ...

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I remember
It was the year
The grizzlies ran wild
And the snow fell
Before autumn 
Had a chance to fill the land

I remember
The cold nights 
Filled with a northern wind
That pulled all the leaves
From the summer trees
Sweeping all...

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