Terri L. French

Everyone asks about the car

We stand there looking down at her.
I ask my husband to go get his gun.
She is convulsing, suffering.
He leaves and I kneel beside her,
stroking her flanks, urging her to just
go to sleep.

winter fog
low beams reflecting
in the doe’s eyes

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About the Author

Terri L. French is a poet/writer and retired massage therapist. For the past four and a half years, she and her husband, Ray, have enjoyed the nomadic life of full-time RVers and are now building their forever home on a mountain in Huntsville, Alabama. Her newest book of haibun is kaleidoscope dream (Red Moon Press).

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