Wild Places

by

Doug Larson

there are places
where the sun never sets
and jeweled stars never fade from the sky
where sheer cliffs of blue ice
explode into the sea
echoing like cannon
across dark craggy inlets of basalt

places
where sucking glacial silt waits
patiently in narrow fjords
to grasp the unwary like a hungry lover
where quick and frigid waters
quietly conducted by apathetic tides
may drown them silently in cold seas brimmed
with mourning whalesong
and lament

here
frozen teeth rise from the jaws of the earth
enameled white with snow and ice
to swallow the midnight sun
exhaling their boreal breath
into the waiting arms
of heaven’s lust
where wolves haunt the twilight
their chorus caressing the breeze
lonely cries as lullabies
shivering between silver leaves
of moonlit spruce and willow
where arctic winds wield
sharp needles of ice
sewing the seasons together
with threads of living sinew

the bones of the earth are here
held together with flowing tendons of ice
and I shrink upon the tundra
standing upon the vast muscle of the living earth
staring upon the infinite expanse of a twilit sky
and I have no questions
only awe
and a keening hunger that gnaws inside
raw and wild

like freedom

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