June 14: Candlelight

candlelit dinner

the doe’s eyes shining

in the headlights

February 6: Deer

In the woods nearby

a doe often reclines

in the same patch of sun.

January 18: New Moon

Slender new moon.

Deer stretching their necks to feed

on cedar boughs. 

December 14: Deer in the woods

A week before Solstice.

Shadows of deer

moving among bare trees.

August 1: North Haven

after-dinner walk

doe with a fawn

crossing our path

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June 27: Where the deer were

Deer tracks in mud.

We follow their trail

through a glade of ferns.

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May 15: Reid State Park

Tracks in the sand--

following two deer

into the dunes.

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February 27: Good view

ladder to a deer stand

in the big lone pine

deer tracks in mud below

July 27: Backroads

Driving home after dinner

fawn in the headlights,

stars out the window.

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July 2: Dusk

waiting for fireflies

three deer in the lower field

a bat overhead

 

Spending Fourth of July weekend at Claybrook Mountain Lodge

 

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January 26: Thaw

Revealed by the thaw--

bright orange orbs of

tangerines the deer passed up.

 

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January 19: What came to pass

Cold hard facts of deer 

tracks in the snowy yard:

it's all happened before. 

January 11: Last day in the Keys

Paul came up with another haiku today, to commemorate our morning visit to the Key West Cemetery:

 

Epitaph on stone

reads, "I told you I was sick."

Death gets the last laugh.

 

We also came upon a stone for a family's pet deer:

 

Later today we visited the National Key Deer NWR on Big Pine Key for the first time to see the little Key Deer, a subspecies of the (much larger) White-tailed Deer.

 

We once had a dog

bigger than this dark-eyed doe

and much less placid.

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December 9: Howe Hill

deer track hieroglyphs

marking the blueberry field

the color purple

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November 22: Driving home from Vermont

Several hawks in trees,
road-killed deer off 89--
this world's dangerous.

November 17: Job training

My new co-worker tells me

three deer live in the woods

around our office.

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October 17: Pleiades

Driving home tonight

toward the hazy Pleiades,

deer watching roadside.

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April 16: Deer crossing

New signs: Watch for Deer--

there's a story there

or several, short stories.

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March 29: Where the deer were

In the old snow,

tracks zig-zagging up a hill--

a long winter for deer too.

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May 31: Trail run

The two startled deer

move through the trees

with so much more grace than I.

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