I see their prints in snow
smaller than our hands
but their bodies
large, mighty, graceful
destroying trucks
with final breaths,
sharp bones shattering glass
blood coating heated metal
dashboard crumpling in
towards our boots
the lasting impact of a dead animal
2 responses to “Deer Prints in the Snow Poem”
It’s very effective to start so quietly with the snow prints, then transition through body size. Then you chose very evocative images in the second half. Somehow the moment of impact is frozen in time
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