He tromped steadily with vainglorious posture Into dark and barbaric wood The snap of root beneath him vibrated a high hat syncopation Tisk tisk counterpoint to the thunderous Boom and boom of violent step
He was a fortress of ability Cloaked in musky matted brown and carcass of meal The scent of which filled his moist ****** and intake of frosted forrest air Filling giant lungs with monstrous roar And raised his swinging head to shout a warning Unstopable emphasis shown By extension of bulk And arms squeezing menace between massive paws
This alarm echoed through shadowy expanses of Aspen and the Evergreen Releasing a riot of wings And emptying the rookery The Forrest felt the tick tock tick Of a grandfather clock's hollow chest and emptiness Desolation's silence became deafening
All activities of the normal lives of communal creatures were ordered: Cease and desist And they burrowed and denned They hid in shelters built for temporary oasis And their hearts beat with mad desire for what lay outside of these spaces
They preoccupied themselves through the chaotic approach Gathered well and nurtured their offspring with nut and berries And well spent breath to calm claustrophobic urge
It would end They knew that it would But each time it felt as if the first time When trouble encroached and compromised solidarities unit singular minds often dream alike Even the smallest of these Felt enormous in it's own existence
The bear And his sweltering cause Had brought new reminder to his domain His bravado and grand display breeding virtue and patience in spite of himself