Coyote was scorched, Raven fell out of orange
sky. Hummingbird melted, all burned and broken
stood around the altars: each of the elementals.

Mountain Lion, Wild Boar appeared, four legs
soaring in orange air, Bears, hungry, seeking 
lost berries, stumbling, pawing in depth of ash, 

Heads low, breathe out omnipresent smoke, dig 
for earth with increasing despair in black trunk of
redwood circle where mule deer, having failed to 

Find green fir, stood amongst others — end to
so many. One era has bent its arc towards
a new world— never like the past.