“The Deer” by Faith S. Holsaert

A new poem by alumna Faith S. Holsaert (poetry, ’82) appears online at Broke Journal  Faith’s nonfiction piece “Roots of May Day” appears in the same journal:

 

I.

She doesn’t know they are deer.

 

Mother arms carry her

in her squishy coat, gift

from her Brooklyn grandma

who is not here and never comes here,

 

but the grandma would know they are deer.

 

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