Tagged: white-tailed deer
last june’s fawn returns
last june’s fawn returns
as may’s button buck, lying in
that same spot in our
backyard, longing for simpler days,
for his mom’s familiar lick
.
20240516:1733
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we traveled halfway
we traveled halfway
around the world to see a
different kind of deer
than the white-tailed friends watching us
from our yard – curious humans
.
20240106:1801
y
lucia has been
lucia has been
losing her fawn spots
at twice the rate as her
twin, lucio. if lucia
started with 289 spots,
and lucio with 323, how
long will it be before
they will become
indistinguishable to
the amateur admirer?
.
20230905:1916
y
lulu is pregnant –
lulu is pregnant –
we think any day now, she
will stop coming by
.
20230528:1813
y
consistency breeds
consistency breeds
familiarity – the
deer in our backyard
sneaking up as i dance between
clothes lines, under the high sun
.
20221229:1904
y
the white-tailed deer in
the white-tailed deer in
our backyard has found a new
spot from which to watch
us, keep tabs on our comings
and our goings, co-exist
.
20221227:1738
y
t-minus four days
t-minus four days
till christmas, even the deer
in our backyard are
m.i.a., busy rehearsing
as backup for their annual gig
.
20221221:1653
y
always alert when
always alert when
there is food to be had – the
grapevine is thick with
bait for any situation –
white-tailed deer have legs made of springs
.
20220829:1742
y
in the backyard this
in the backyard this
morning, four bucks, two does, one
fawn, finding home with
us, if only for a little
while, an unlikely family
.
20220807:2014
y
this morning’s herd of
this morning’s herd of
deer pranced through the backyard a
blur, only the buck
paused, looked back once to check that
no one had been left behind
.
20220107:1957
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