NATURE Poem: Bear Sighting on June 13th, by Rowan Goral

Beneath Apollo’s superficial stare
I found you miles into a pinewood
Doe eyes settling in stricken despair

A coat of false belligerence you wear
Anthropomorphic you stood
Beneath apollo’s superficial stare

You held no maternal sense of child care
Picking at the ashes of my girlhood
Doe eyes settling in stricken despair

This moment an altar, our eyes locked in prayer
A perpetual lull i wouldn’t break if could
Beneath apollo’s superficial stare

If you were this life to spare
Pomegranate promise to remain true and good
Doe eyes settling in stricken despair

Callisto, my Ursa, clawing midair
I’m your Arcas, vision obscured
Beneath Apollo’s superficial stare
Doe eyes setting in stricken despair