A Great Poem About a Bear Named Ivan

This doesn't have a whole lot to do with the work I have been doing but this is an awesome poem Jae Choi a  guest in a recent creative writing class that reminded me of the class. It's about a bear, when I imagine the bear I like to imagine a bear in Haida form style. I also have decided that I am going to try and make a bas-relief piece which I will carve first in wood and then transfer to clay based around the line "all I want is the fish to glow at night."

Je M'appelle Ivan

I am alone  I am a real bear  with a head full of

hazard and light    I live in nature    live with no

friends   and no equity   who needs it   I have

my face  I have my hands  which are as I speak

mauling the air    one time I took a trip     I lay

horizontal on a marvelous raft     I did look up

regard the blank stars   and accept them as holes in

the frame   one time I ran so fast   I left my own

self behind    my own self wandered into an old

birch   and it fell over   I have now escrow    O

bees though sweet kingdom of noise   I worship

freely    and I pee on the leaves     and the wind

impulses right through me  like a small clean rock

all I want is the fish to glow at night           when

 everyone on earth is trying to reach me       hello

yes    hello   this never happens    yet other events

go on and on   the dimming of the moon    I am

upright   I am lumbering    alone with no liquidity

and I live on berries    deliver me berries   if later

on you glide   into these wild and wilder woods

-Heather Christle, from The Trees The Trees

For those interested here is a version of a bear done in the Haida style by Artist Joe Mandur Jr.

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