Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Stag

Today I heard you crack branches

and rip through tangled leaves


as you leaped up the impossible slope


above the roadway.





Seeing is not needed for believing.


I knew it was you.





When I did see you, I was not looking.


My eyes were surveying leafy side roads


into the park as I whizzed past,


seeking the road not taken.





You can't believe everything you hear,


but you were soundless anyway.





Like an icon in a Celtic mystery


you stood in the middle of the path


hocks hidden in the mist and antlers high,


echoing branches of dead trees.





Believing is not seeing.


I know you are out there, sight unseen.

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