A Death in the Natural World T-Shirt

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I debated about posting this, but it is a part of nature:

A Death in the Natural World

It's not something I looked for in the long grass of the dry lakebed
But it rose in the distance, an alien object in the fall landscape
A ribcage, barrel-shaped, empty, beckoning.

Skin and teeth and bones of a cow elk,
Flies and wasps buzzing round bits of gristle,
Legs splayed, twisting, as if trying, even in death, to escape its fate.

Across the field I had seen bear scat, but it could have been a cougar
That brought this once fine creature down.
In death, so little is left, matted grass round the carcass like a crop circle.

I visit it a week later and find the flies have gone.
The rib cage has been opened, legs rearranged
The remains have fed at least one coyote and countless scavenger birds.

Even in death, there is a purpose, at least in the natural world.
The elk's struggle to live is just as fierce as ours - but the submissi...

Welcome to my page! There's a lot of photography here, so feel free to make multiple visits. The work can be viewed in galleries or you can search by keywords or title. I have a passion for the natural world and the living creatures that inhabit those places. The stunning beauty of our world and the wild animals that share this earth with us deserve to be revered and protected. In 2019, I was honored to have my work, Cougar Reservoir On A Snowy Day, published in the UK Sunday Times for their interview with Barry Lopez, the nature writer. In addition, recently, three large prints of waterfalls (Spirit Falls with Reflection, Moon Falls, and Pinard Falls), were bought by the Cottage Grove Ranger District Office to decorate their new work...