• Poetry
  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Book Reviews
  • Translations
  • About
  • Awards
  • Submissions
  • Buy LAR
  • Poetry
  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Book Reviews
  • Translations
  • About
  • Awards
  • Submissions
  • Buy LAR

The Deer House by Sara Michas-Martin


An antler taps the glass before the sun comes on
this is how I’ll know it’s November
the deer fog-browsing for something more
a window’s drip a ditch pursing water
I carry myself ungently
from place to place I almost
step on a deer near my car
curled like a comma
between two parts of a sentence
I can’t write
I feel the largeness
of the animal’s calm breathing
before the hard left turns of surprise
its mass contrary to loft upon going
43 years I’ve searched consciously or not
for an advisor in other people
for how to live stay kind make things mother
the doe grazing at dusk doesn’t know
the size of my impatience
only her fawn nosing for milk
this early departure of light
her path traces boundary
also a passage through

 


Sara Michas-Martin is the author of Gray Matter, winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize and nominated for the Colorado Book Award. Recent poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, Kenyon Review Online, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Stanford.



Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recent Posts

  • The Last Resort by L.I. Henley
  • Poems by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Translated by Aysel K. Basci
  • 2 Poems by R. A. Allen
  • To rest her feet, to feel like one of the girls by Hannah Grieco
  • Lures by Adam Vines Review by Leona Sevick

Recent Comments

  • Judith Fodor on Three Poems by David Keplinger
  • Marietta Brill on 2 Poems by Leah Umansky

Categories

  • Award Winners
  • Book Reviews
  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
  • Interviews
  • LAR Online
  • Nonfiction
  • Poetry
  • Translations
  • Uncategorized

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Recent Posts

  • The Last Resort by L.I. Henley
  • Poems by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Translated by Aysel K. Basci
  • 2 Poems by R. A. Allen
  • To rest her feet, to feel like one of the girls by Hannah Grieco
  • Lures by Adam Vines Review by Leona Sevick
© 2014 Los Angeles Review. All Rights Reserved. Design and Developed by NJSCreative Inspired by Dessign.net