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Lisa Ortiz

It Snowed

All night we slept

intertwined in sheets

 

& when we woke

the world had dressed

 

herself in silver scarves

and pins of ice,

 

owl wings, aspen bark,

mute paths and branches.

 

astonishment that hushed

our flurried tongues—

 

every particle of us nude

& falling from the sky.

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Lisa Ortiz grew up in rural Mendocino County where shy black bears visited the orchard every summer leaving behind piles of plum pits and runes of claw marks scratched in the trees. Her book of poems, Guide to the Exhibit. is forthcoming from Perugia Press in fall 2016.

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Bear Review

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