✨ As the Deer
when the pressure changes...
As the Deer
We owe it to each other
to share what white tail already know.
When the pressure changes, they run
together, hooves clacking across asphalt,
then silent on the dewy lawns.
—Marcus Goodyear
✨ This poem is in honor of Poetic Earth Month, celebrated in April
From Barbies at Communion: Poems. Copyright © 2010. Used by permission of T. S. Poetry Press. Photo by Einar Storsul, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.
"then silent on the dewy lawns"