Finding the Cave
An October day, following a trail of
broken
arrowheads, I stumbled on the entrance
to a cave. Cap was skittish,
maybe scenting
a rattler. I grabbed my flashlight and pistol
from the
saddlebag and squeezed in past
fallen rocks blocking the door, then
spooked
nearly fired a wild shot, hearing my own
breath rebound off the
walls. In the dusty
beam, two skeletons of different size
embraced
like lovers on the stone floor. The bear’s teeth
and claws bit
and raked the white shoulder
blade. The woman wore a ripped
deerskin
blouse, long skirt and moccasins. A medicine
pouch lay beside
her. The tall willow basket
with leather straps had been torn from her
back
but her bare fingers held an obsidian knife
between the bear’s
ribs. The Paiute woman
gathering firewood took shelter from the sky
and
Thunderbird, the sudden lightning storm,
found the dry cave where the grizzly
slept
lightly. I could hear a roar and the echo
of her cries as the
two stumbled in the dark
room, holding each other in the terrible
dance
that would end only when they lay quietly
face to face. Their
white skulls didn’t turn
from the light, the hollow sockets didn’t
stare.
The furious sounds of the secret battle
had changed to silence,
joined the weatherless
breathing of rock. They were part of the
stone
hymn, the faint mineral singing that was time
itself. The bones
seemed holy, blessed by granite
centuries, and years ago I left them
undisturbed.
Nels Hanson has worked as a farmer, teacher, and contract writer/editor. He
graduated from UC Santa Cruz and the U of Montana and his fiction received the
San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award. His stories have appeared in
Antioch Review, Texas Review, Black Warrior Review, Southeast Review, Montreal
Review, and other journals. "Now the River's in You," a 2010 story which
appeared in Ruminate Magazine, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and "No One
Can Find Us," which was published in Ray's Road Review, has been nominated for
the 2012 Pushcart Prizes.
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