now weaned
aeolian drifting from
home now transient
first steps, from the jumbled concrete to the quiet of the sparse forest
first worm
first acorn
first egg
first rain
first river flowing burbling full of fish, insects, refreshing and clean
first small fish
first beetle
first bath
first big fish
first time seeing a human up close, outside the city
first Flamin’ Hot Doritos
first bird
first snow
first snow den
first snow nap
first time meeting a cousin, bushy tail
first storm
first delicious milk sweet corn
first blackberry
first blueberry
first favourite walnut, savored and remembered
first coyote chase, escaped up a maple tree
first lake, thoroughly explored
first road, the sight of blood of fur of a dead