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Chilliwack River Hunt
by Neal Ostman
Beneath high mountains are the splayed
toes, hillsides
caped with green feathered conifers.Glossy flat-needle cedars, dark Sitka Spruce,
Douglas Firs steeple the ridges,
their topsail branches are sparse and twisted
A couple with upper limbs that curve like
crescent horns on ancient battle standards.This layered drape of trees
packed tight as the scales on a coho,
that silver flashes
in the emerald, cold, Chilliwack River.
Swift water cascades in violent snowy froths,
tumbling among and drowning hidden boulders
scattered in the riverbed.The few that peek out, brown or gray,
above the turbulent creaming,
look like the backs of bears,
head down in a hunt
for darting life.
Copyright 2002 by Neal Ostman. All Rights Reserved.
Neal Ostman is.
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