Fractured Spaces

The roadside bear

and her cub walk along

a highway

through sagebrush and pine.

She is protecting her cub

from being eaten

by male grizzlies

and so she stays close to the road.

She is known

Around the world as 399,

The Queen of the Tetons.

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A family of five

Leaps out of an SUV

With binoculars

And smart phones.

There are cars speeding

Over the plains

and a mother

grabs her daughter by the arm.

They say there is an aura

around a grizzly,

know around the world.