Originally written for a poetry class at Alfred University (2007), and later presented as part of GRAMMAS CAMERAS II (2013), an exhibition of photography and writings.
Sunday:
it was morning,
five o’clock and quiet.
The snow captured lamplight, turning
orange.
Inside
the construction
fence surrounding a library,
I spotted seven silhouettes
of deer.
Ice crunched
beneath my boots.
I crept across the snow
to get closer, trying not to
startle.
Their heads
rose and ears perked.
One after another,
they leaped around the building, and
were lost.
A doe,
who stayed behind,
froze on the orange snow.
Just as I found my camera, she
escaped.