Two days spent on scout
Watch sky for black raven shape
Third morning lucky
Gray wolf lopes through snow
Stops on white hillside nervous
Black shapes congregate
Wolf watches watchers
Breath gleams white against gray land
Black wings color snow
Undertakers' shapes
Descend on strewn red carcass
Hidden from watchers
Gray wolf stalks unsure
Toward red snow behind small rise
Nose down to read scent
Trots down draw wary
Scatters black winged breakfast club
Eagles with ravens
Takes one red mouthful
Runs again to top of rise
Scavengers return
Nose up wolf tests air
Ignores black clique on carcass
Watches watchers watch
Runs again down draw
As black shapes again retreat
Once again ignored
Wolf feeds quickly now
Scurries back to white lookout
Black wings come again
Wary wolf paws snow
Watches beyond cold watchers
Watchers read red snow
Elk kill freshly made
Too large for gray wolf alone
Killed by pack at dawn
Lone wolf wise to signs
Pack scent all around white bones
Return imminent
Lone wolves killed by pack
Black wings await next carcass
Outsiders beware
Winged ones have no fear
Flight trumps fang once snow is red
Winter's kills fuel life
Black plus white makes gray
Red on white says survival
Winter Yellowstone