Speaking the Language of Deer
by Martin Willitts Jr.
She heard a thumping sound behind her house,
turned on the back porch light to
a small herd of deer
startled by the suddenness of light, frozen
and indecisive as a letter of regret
“don’t worry, it’s just me, I won’t harm you,”
she coaxed, a voice in light snowfall,
the deer, transfixed,
disbelieving in all things human
and unnatural
the darkness between, a division, an unsettling
of things beyond light and resolution,
assessing danger on the fly,
hindquarters enveloping into dark
slow as words,
determined as a Quaker weighting options
within the light, in silence
the woman in the household wondered
where they came from, which imaginary forest,
how they survived in the city
without encountering a car, how hooves
might feel on concrete after being in meadows,
why dark was a prevailing wind,
how their eyes remained after they were gone,
how her purse was genuine deerskin
how it fit everything in compartments
like she fit into apartments,
how she could still hear their refusal to stay
End of the poem
15 random poems
- My Mother’s Grief
- The Tiger039s Roar
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Ballade Of The Tweed poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Sonnet. Why Did I Laugh Tonight? poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Луговской – Мальчики играют на горе
- Since That Summer by Mike Yuan
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso
- Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul by William Shakespeare
- Bishop’s Caundle by William Barnes
- Prayer, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem: Prière by T. Wignesan.
- Владимир Высоцкий – Возле города Пекина
- The Last Whisper by Nizar Sartawi
- To a Lady by William Dunbar
- Шекспир – Что, если бы я право заслужил – Сонет 125
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
