I startle a deer eating breakfast in the tall grass
She bounds away, leaping through the air
The heft of her
She is magnificent
Such a deer!
I had seen her earlier with her fawn
Startled them both
The baby darted away
Mama following closely behind
I huff in the smell of the woods
The pine is my favorite
Bury me beneath a pine tree
So I can spend eternity
Buried in the hummus surrounding her trunk and
Blanketed in pine needles