The science of true north
Bundles in magnetic snouts
Of rainbow trout or the
Cryptochrome eyes of Anna’s Hummingbirds.
Even cows align along axes north-to-south.
Lacking their animal magnetism
I face into polar winds
Cascading from icy fields
Where Auroras shimmer.
My shivering hounds race toward me–
A locus of heat and comfort.
Janine Donoho 