#1233

24×30 Oil on canvas

		The Deer Itself


I saw a deer beside the wooded path

the deer itself

an absence

marked
in bone

without the deer
a leg 
without the flesh

		radius and ulna infused
		are one
		tibia and fibula infused
		are one

femur making three
bones
         one
deer  

disarticulate 
of space and time
beside the rock strewn stream