Morning

Deer come through our garden fairly regularly. Our vegetables are well-protected under chicken-wire cages, but I let roses grow extra high so that they can’t be
reached and eaten …

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MORNING

sunlight scatters                              
over daffodil spears

dapples creeping thyme
and curled fiddleheads

strays through cedar boughs
to warm my face

and touch a fawn
through shifting shade

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first published on Muse

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