Dead Doe by Jim Harrison Amid pale green milkweedwild clovera rotted deer, curled,shag-likeafter a winter so coldthe trees split open.I think she couldn’t keep upwith the others—they had no place to go—and her food,the frozen grass and twigs,wouldn’t carry her weight.Now from boney socketsshe stares out on thiscruel luxuriance.
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Dead Doe by Jim Harrison


Amid pale green milkweed
wild clover
a rotted deer, curled,
shag-like
after a winter so cold
the trees split open.
I think she couldn’t keep up
with the others—
they had no place to go—
and her food,
the frozen grass and twigs,
wouldn’t carry her weight.
Now from boney sockets
she stares out on this
cruel luxuriance.

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