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Elaine Thomas
DOE ON THE ROAD NEAR DEVIL'S TOWER
She was beautiful
and frightened
by my car.
In startled snatches
I viewed the delicacy
of her ballet:
the elegant bones,
her soft flickering
eye as we
evaded one another,
thereby eluding
some tragic outcome.
I'd never seen
a deer before
except in pictures
and she was so alive -
where she vanished
into the trees
I imagined her
tiny hooves tapping
like air
against the space
of an open
door.
Location: Las Cruces, New Mexico Email: nehferet@zianet.com Website: http://www.the-hold.com/1111/index.html Publications: Disquieting Muses, Mindfire, The Hold, PlopLop, Snakeskin, Poetry Super Highway, Thunder Sandwich, idiolect, Paper Salad Poetry Journal, etc.