The Big Staring Deer
Has your memory ever been an unfenced country? A bend in the road? Terrence Hayes (beckoned)
Walking up the little incline and around a minor bend in the road where I live
Which was not too long ago a place totally taken up by various trees in a large forest
To the Metro Stop, in Silver Spring, on a very warm and bright summer day
I happen to notice a big brownish-orange deer hidden in the green and the browning bushes
Stuck in between the two very different large apartment buildings on both sides of the deer
With its colored head barely sticking out between the multicolored leaves
Quietly standing there and just carefully observing
With its brightly shining eyes
The traffic and I go by.
©Gregory Gilbert Gumbs
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Gregory Gilbert Gumbs
Gregory Gilbert Gumbs is a lawyer, criminologist, screenwriter, widely-published poet all over the world, essayist and a Ph.D. political scientist.
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