Article: THE DOE.(Brief Article)

 
   What does it matter 
   what I was thinking 
   when I aimed at a quivering branch 
   and braced my whole body 
   for the kick of that Browning .410? 
 
   All I could do was watch 
   the wet-velvet leg of something alive 
   sliding from the spattered white haunches 
   of the thing that lay dead on the snow. 
   All I could do was wait 
 
   when my father laid a hand on her belly, 
   unsnapped the strap 
   of the scabbard that hung from his belt, 
   then opened her pelt with a jerk: 
   a steaming blue hose spilling out, 
 
   a sopping pouch like a red jelly-fish, 
   and a leathery knot that he worked 
   out of the ribs in his fist-- 
   lifting his big hands from ...

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