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Dennis Ryan

Wellsville, New York

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Wellsville, New York

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February 27,2005

"will any come back will one... "
- W.S. Merwin, "The Animals"

I await the bear: he will
emerge from hibernation,
to come back to my house;
to enter, to open the cupboards,
to stand upright on his hind legs
to get to the honey; and then to look
back at me with those bear eyes.

Dennis Ryan

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Topic(s) of this poem: animals,coming,danger,human and animal,intuition,metamorphose,metaphor,mystery,psychology,search

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The speaker of the poem envisons a bear coming back to his house in search of food, and senses that the poem is a danger warning.Who and or what can the bear be?

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