Stills

Back to the cabin this past week. It was unusually warm for late September, and rainy. But that didn't stop us from hiking the woods where we startled a doe and her fawn into statue-like stillness before they turned and loped deeper into the forest. Their presence reminded me that hunting season draws ever closer.



Stills


The camera catches
the unseeing eye of a felled deer,
a small slit in the lens.

Did a twig snatch it, scratch it
as the warm brown body
stumbled?

The color blue
bending into black
pools under thick lashes.

I have seen quiet eyes
like this before
on a wild ER night.



Marilyn Aschoff Mellor