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deer of bergen

from creature comforts by a small bird

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Two figures dance across the street as white as ghosts
Under the shade of trees torn down years ago,
Wandering up the avenue, cars
Careening around the turn.
What they’re looking for is long since gone,
A lesson hard to learn

For albino deer of Bergen on a county highway curb.
It was never their intention to move out to the burbs.
They know where they’re going, some emerald field in south Jersey,
But they often change directions
And second-guess the journey.

This body hit this windshield like a meteor from space.
A stag the brown of summer fell, a pale one took its place,
Who all the drivers, terrified, will stop and let pass by:
The grandly antlered poltergeist just on the search for somewhere dry.

The albino deer of Bergen
Cross the street beside the lake.
They didn’t bring their passes,
but they pass between the gates.
The fawns all hit the beach and play some tag along the shore,
The parents take a walk and wonder what the fence is for.

Intertwined with power lines,
The branches seem amiss.
Heading for the edge of town,
But the edge does not exist

For an albino deer of Bergen
Reclining on my lawn
Watching the trees and wondering when she should move on.
Her coat as white as a piece of the moon that fell to earth,
Those crimson eyes betray a kind of un-resenting hurt.

The albino deer of Bergen disappears between the trees,
A final verdant vestige of the place this used to be.
One oddly human stare behind a thin ruminant face,
And then, vanished,
Gone without a trace.

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from creature comforts, released July 2, 2021

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a small bird is the solo project of a queer trans artist based in Chicagoland.

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