Day of the Ice Age Cave Bear This Day

The mind gets used to bad news,
Says the news. News you can use,

Says the news. Some news claims news
Is fake news. Some news claims fake

News is old news. Some news claims
Some news that will make you smile,

The news in good news this week.
Look, there may be life out there.

Look, here’s an ice age cave bear
Found in ice, still in one piece—

Soft flesh, fur, that black bear nose.
I think of the bones I saw

Of a deer, bleached by a month
By the side of the dirt road,

And how those bones glowed. By now
They’re shards in the brown straw grass.

Whose past is the past’s that’s past?
News from the thaw starts the show.