the hunting and fishing store’s
second-floor display window
overlooking the Auburn Traffic Circle
presented three bruins in some arrested motion
of taxidermist art
Mama Bear, Papa Bear, Little Baby Bear
as I mumbled spiraling past,
amused and annoyed many mornings
when nighttime burglars cleaned the place out
investigators didn’t look to children’s stories
rather, they sought someone with a truck bed
that wasn’t too little and not too big but just right
all the same, in the end, they
collared more juvenile delinquents
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