I touch her (them) with the eyes of my skin

~ Live & Learn

  • Photo: Backyard Visitors. DK  @ Daybreak. 7:35 a.m. this morning.
  • Post Title & Inspiration:
    The way a deer emerges from a thicket
    is the opposite of a wound.

    Like the moon in the morning —
    all firmament, beautiful, about to vanish.

    Each morning I walk out my apartment
    & wonder what is going to become of me.

    —  Devin Kelly, “Deer on the Side of an American Highway,” published in drDOCTOR (via bostonpoetryslam)

  • And also inspired by:

    We move within the snow-chromed world—: Like-animal. Like-deer. An alphabet. Along a street white as lamp light into the winter, walking—: like language, a new text. I touch her with the eyes of my skin.

    ~ Natalie Diaz, from ‘Between the Palm and the Ear” (Boston Review)

38 thoughts on “I touch her (them) with the eyes of my skin”

      1. I was hiking in midstate New York (with shorts on, unfortunately) and noticed many deer that had scampered off the path. My thinking is that the tick was on the grass and attached to me as I passed by. Big bulls-eye on my leg one week later. Lots of sweat and then antibiotics. No long-term issues, thankfully!

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      2. You too Dave – just said to HH about You always finding – at a spur‘s moment – the best quotes, citations, snippets of books…. and now this! Highsmith went deeper under your skin than I‘d like her to 😉

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  12. This, honest to God, nearly made me kiss the iPad ….. it‘s everything I could wish for and more.
    I have one couple of in-laws who also very frequently have deers standing at the brink of a wood, only some 25-30m from their balcony. I‘ve often taken snaps when I was there. It‘s a sight one never tires of….
    Thank you for this wonder-full end-of-year pressie. Most appreciated.

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