A Natural Beginning

The green wood is thick with the sickly sweet odor of fruit lying like meat rotting in the sun. The sound like a small explosion shatters the silence and puts a murder of crows to flight. In flashes of red and whispers of brown the smaller birds flee from the trees as singed leaves settle earthward. The tree closest to where the explosion took place is shaken from its space by rough paws and sharp claws. The bear finishes off the 50 year old tree by leaning all of his weight into cedar sending it to the ground with a thud muffled by branches snapping revealing the red-purple veins in the wood. He felt the first flutterings of an instinctual fear  when he began to notice the humming noise...

5.10.2010