To Be Human
- Boiling rice under flashlight
- we remember deer in meadows
- We photographed a buck
- eating purple flowers
- and reaching back to scratch his thigh
- with his soft two prong
- Now we stare at the flame
- and meditate the wildness of the creature
- and of ourselves in this place
- aware of the darkness
- and of the quick yellow eyes
- that in partial fear of us
- crossed the road
- 14 June 1982, Yosemite