One day gone in the long great forest Of the ancient world, wolves alone And mighty hungered with true kin Stalking the tundras of the snow drifts And all their prey, with cautionary eyes Moved in heards and flocks swaying With the sounds of the forest floor And the spearing grasses. The wolf Was his own master, free, unbounded. A great spirit, brother to the moon.
One dying day, when the bushes burned They came upon the garbage dumps Of early man. Their smoke was laden With the smell of fresh ****, small skins, Animals, ended trail, and salted death. Many wolves circled in fear, their pits, Only one or a few tasted the left overs The easy scraps and bones, tailings, The elder pack would not stoop for. These few unguarded wolves morphed And mated with each other, their mane And fur, soon was tamed, soon became Mottled and brown no silver remaining. This was the fall of the wolf, not man And the moon turned white, when wolf Became dog.