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Rated: 18+ · Book · Other · #995940
Poetic sketches of poems beginning with A through D
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#364112 added September 26, 2005 at 1:42pm
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Deer in headlights
[ASR] An elegy from Oklahoma.

♠♠♠♠♠

Deer in headlights

♠♠♠♠♠

Neck arched,

just so.

It stretches

towards the cloudless sky
captured in the blank
behind the eye.

It slumbers.

Grass provides a softened nest
where rests the beige of hide
that did not make it 'cross the road.

It lies.

No more will white of tail
flick the flies that gather.
Forgotten in the cold,

it stiffens,

bloats through warm Spring days,
lit by speeding headlights
that pass it by.

Kåre Enga © 2004

Catalogue number: [161.74]
13 april 2004.
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