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Grizzly Falls Buried Badger Creek

clawmarks in
the tree bark, dug
out a scratch mark, filled
it with a puddle of urine, the
grizzly leaves its calling card,

she hands me
back the crock, her
wrists rope-burned from
where I found her tied to a
pecan-wood schoolhouse chair,
whiskey put a burning lump in my
throat,

on the slateboard
I wrote, "fat wagon
wheel spokes transport 
this free woman to Grizzly
Falls" -  choking back my tears,

she spotted
a pine-pitch stump,
we tore into it with the
vengeance of an ax, started
a fire, the crock got her talking,
"you came through that schoolhouse
door like a grizzly leaves its calling card" -

"I found your
horse two and a
half days ago at Badger
Creek, in the water's flow,
your saddlebags, a note you
wrote, 'to my wife'" - horses sometimes
get stolen and women sometimes get tied,
roped into it,

choosing
the grizzly over
the badger, though
we know that if we had
not grown, her tied to that
schoolhouse chair, the badger
would not be there, or the blue topaz
fire in her eyes,

habitable land,
free land of the mind,
1890 we f***ed at Grizzly
Falls where by extension,
adventure, and enlargement
in literature, the arts, the life of
the mind, and pussy, Grizzly
Falls buried Badger Creek,

dug out
a scratch mark,
filled it with a puddle
of urine, the grizzly leaves
its calling card,

I...

Copyright 7/12/08 Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist