Headlights pierced the gathering fog
and swept the side ditch and the
barbed wire fence.
Hypnotized by the sameness of nothing—
the fallow fields of winter—
I reached for the radio dial when out of the gloom
a lurching figure appeared.
All legs—a wendigo?—chase curtailed?
The headlights pierced the jellyfish eyes
of the crazed creature, its back legs snared
on the barbed wire of the fence.
Hung with weight, the doe lunged for freedom
over and over like the pendulum of a clock.
Her companions having long since
cleared the fence.
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Happy Sunday Funday from the sweltering Thumb of a changing world.