Beaver at a Cottonwood Tree
gnawing bark
felling human prejudice
flooding dens
beaver pilgrimage
legs spread
communal feast
damned and dammed
self-created waterhole
consequence of survival
weasels and badgers
prey on old habits
tampering with spiritual environment
ecological trauma
plowed up and defeated
baited by beaver at a cottonwood tree
Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist
Always,
Deborah
Chip Bergeron