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

Photo: Fredrik Stige with “White Tailed Deer, Montana“