Civilized

 

 Far from everything:

in between skies as vast as mountains,

and mountains as limitless as the night;

Lives that understand living 

in the midst of their fur and the survival 

of eternal winters, in tundra that converses

with the wind 

and claws stamped on the ground 

as warm greetings to non-sourdoughs;

Foreigners on this open land

reminding us 

how wild we can all be,

if we stop 

to breathe in the peace.