Claire, dreaming

by Carrie Karnes Fannin

Her head
rests
on
my slippers

as her dozing chocolate eyes
flicker with bone-bred
memories

of snows
swirling and sweeping
over gray plains
lit by a howling moon.

Her soft sighs
and whimpers
call
to the wild pack--

warning
of
lightning,
prairie fires,
and boulder-filled
rushing rivers.

Still sleeping,
she turns and settles once more,
all the while her paws

twitch-twitch

as she hunts
alongside the ghosts
of wolves.

We said goodbye to Ms. Claire Bear yesterday. It was our privilege to have her with us for almost nine years and to see her off into the Universe when the time came.

​Thank you for stopping by awhile, Claire. You were a very good girl.