Dexterity

Looking up in rain canyon

It’s hard to tell with mother deer impaled

Onto the lightning sharp tip of that big old pine tree

That she fell from the south cliff above

But I can’t see it happening any other way

And why it chose that place

That strange and lofty place to 

Give birth is a damned mystery

Dropping the twin fawns

Red leggy eggs at 

My shit-stained boots

Blown like canyon leaping whim off course 

She never made it across 

Now bloated like leaking limb

Frozen in pink blue pluvial sky

It reminds me of that other dead fawn

On Grizzly’s Ranch

Hide and skeleton nakedly slung over entangled

Barbed wire fence fossilized there with skull

Hanging down

Ashamed of cobalt vultures hovering above

Orbiting death billboards

Sometimes elegance and a dream isn’t enough

To get you over the fence

Across the canyon 

And there you hang

It all must have begun so gracefully