FIRST PLACE
slow-moving river --
a doe drinks
from her reflection
-acm
SECOND PLACE
fallen deer antlers
a cricket's
perch
ken kuniyuki
THIRD PLACE
deer tracks
from the cornfield
to the rosebed
Bob
BELOW THIRD PLACE
sandpipers fly
just at the shoreline
a deer stops drinking
Paul MacNeil
moonlight
a deer curls up
on the forest floor
Carolyne
Face to face
every muscle tensed
the deer and I
Ed Shaheen
just one deer left
in these shrinking woods
growing old alone
Doug Sherman
frost whitens
the tall grasses -
the slain deer's eyes
Jeanne Emrich
first snow
falling through branches
sticks to the buck's antlers
Harold Bowes
west texas freeway
buzzards crowd
the deer carcasses
omeric
haircut and a shave
under a fourteen point buck's
steady gaze
~Susan
light from the west -
the old buck scents
another rival
kirsten bishop
From a glowing sky
silhouetted deer
enter the forest
Edwin
my son's palm--
a deer nuzzles
Cheerios
Joann
how they brighten
the narrow deer trail-
shiny drops of blood
neca
summer dusk -
deer sips from the stream
silently
Alan (~Kyab~)
my whispering
does not reach the wandering deer
at the water's edge
-Noor SIngh Khalsa
towing my clubs
from the 11th green -
deer quietly return
paul m
Autumn leaves tremble
suddenly
a vanishing deer
-- Margarita Drozdoff
bordering the woods
the soft yellow-browns of ash;
silently, a doe
Pardee
dark winding road -
in the lights ahead
a freeze frame deer
Maleti (Mary Lee McClure)
water willows rise
from a splash of moonlight
....the doe drinks
Ferris
patch of soft earth -
the distinct curves and points
of a deer track
Laura Young
finger
on the shutter release...
deer suddenly still
Hugh Waterhouse
hoarfrost meadow
in the distance he appears...
that phantom white buck
Zoned Cat
deer heads
lining the knotty pine bar -
a hunter's stare
Mark Alan Osterhaus
silently watching
a statuesque buck at the pond
sudden shot rings out
DeeDee
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