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
- Ольга Седакова – Маленькое посвящение Владимиру Ивановичу Хвостину
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Одно из двух
- Какой чудесный, маленький комочек
- little Sara’s sleep by Raj Arumugam
- Федор Сологуб – Ариадна
- Why Feed The Early Signs Of Boredom? poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Limericks by Robby Charters
- Praises to my motherland ! by Neelam Sinha
- What is Creativity Anyway and How Come the Human Mind is So Good at It?
- Wild Dark Love Song by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- Robert Burns: The Lament: Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend’s Amour.
- Владимир Высоцкий – Смотрины
- Альфред де Мюссе – Не забывай! Когда заря рассвета
- Олег Бундур – Тополёк
- Book Ends by Tony Harrison
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
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).
