Sharkbite Bob

Sharkbite Bob told the pretty girls
in southern California
he lost his leg to a shark
off the port side of his sailboat
while swimming with otters.

Part Comanche,
a fearless man
shy of 66 inches
in his tan Timberlands.
Sharkbite lost his leg
to thrombosis.
He was a long-distance truck driver.

Early one Sunday last year,
he lost his life to exiles
of the Soda Butte wolf pack
in Yellowstone.

His bones gnawed by bears,
they found his camera
and some aluminum pipe
– his left leg.

The last picture
recovered from his camera
was the hungry pack surrounding him
as he stood on a log in the park.

Crowded together
jowl to jowl
muzzles wrinkled,
canines dripping with saliva
eyes aglow
in the red light of
the morning hunt.