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Adelaide B. Shaw

The Deer Highway

The deer come up through the wooded ravine behind our house, unhurriedly cross our lawn. Throughout the year they come and go, perhaps the same deer, perhaps their offspring. Travelers without a home, always seeking a safe place, following the food supply: leaves, weeds, and grasses in the warm months, berries in the fall, small twigs and branches in winter. Always following two laws of nature: to stay alive, to raise their young. 

border crossing—
with her hands she covers
her swollen belly

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About the Author

Adelaide B. Shaw lives in Somers, New York. She has been creating Japanese poetic forms for fifty years. Her books, An Unknown Road and The Distance I’ve Come, are available on Amazon.