Monday, January 30, 2012

Messengers

Instead of walking right in to the thing,
take a minute, breathe, have a look around.

This morning I saw three huge doe in the forest.
They didn't seem too afraid when they heard me.

Their gentle lope reminded me of slow motion footage from a nature show
the long flapping cotton like tails standing at attention

Jack and Pig didn't see them, but instead flushed a covey of meadowlarks.
Little brown birds flying in unison darting in waves to the right and left in perfect time

3 miles in the cold up and down the trails till the crows saw me
One crow in a tree saw us and alerted the other crows

They cawed, telling where I was
Messengers determined to make sure everyone knew

wkm
Oxford

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