Four whitetail deer grazed so close to the house I could have touched them but for the wall. They heard “Ding!” when I deactivated the alarm and skittered away sideways, then ran full-out to the woods, white flags flying . 6:30 a.m.
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The children burst through the front door, running to tell me, “Coming up the driveway, we saw a bunny and a wild turkey!” “Reminds me of a joke,” I said. “A bunny and a wild turkey walk into a bar. . .” The 11 year old girl cocked her head, waiting, but the 14 year [...]
Rattling around in my head, a loose light bulb in a shack by the tracks. On. Off. On. Off. On. Off. On. Off. On. Off. On. Off. On. Off. On.
Big-mouth bass, a God, captured with multi-jointed, shiny lures festooned with yellow paint around the eyes and pink feathery tassels.
The smell of fish frying, that big bass’s tail curling up, brown & crisp, balls of oniony dough spinning in hot grease, sweet catsup. Daddy.
The old chocolate lab closed her eyes and licked the air while Buck massaged her with liquid dish soap. It was love on a warm day.
Southern whitetails glissade on the ice like skaters at Rockefeller Center, shyly wearing their newly-grown shaggy fur coats.
Basso profundo owl must have been drawn by the small circle of light in my midnight study. So close I arose to see if he wanted to come in.
Tongue-tied in a gregarious fiction class, I stutter and think of the woods.
A convention of prosperous robins gathers for opening ceremonies in the frosty clearing.
