White-tailed deer
“i see nothing over there
but a hollow in the long grass
like the places where deer have been lying,
and the only thing I hear
is shallow water maklng excuses to stone.’’
— From “Where the Deer Were,’’ by Kate Barnes (1932-2013). A Massachusetts native, she lived in the latter part of her life in Appleton, Maine. She served as Maine’s poet laureate.
Appleton is in red.
