The Man Who Reassured a Deer

I think I’d like to tell the tale

about the man who reassured a deer –
but you might wonder what it meant.
Investigative questions make my head feel queer.

Any stab at explication,
and I lose the thread.
Suddenly – inexorably –
dreams play dead.

Until they’ve leapfrogged
to another pond –
somewhere –
beyond –

to savor
the ambiguous –
delight in
the amphibious.







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