In the Spring - Looking Out

Small Steps

7:22 light,  sure

She steps out

  a shadow detaching

          itself from the

woods leaving

the trees behind

she steps ginger footed

down the lawn

between Murphy’s house

and the driveway of Lefrancois.

She enters my eye

while watching Dr. Who

      dreaming of Rose

and magic travel time

this doe slightly built

  young tender footed

from the Arcacia Club herd

            bobs her head

        and tail walks her way

down to the road

and sniffs the tar

  rank with smells of a 

new foreign world

turning in fear and confusion

she runs for mama.

She’ll be back

This one-