1.<\/p>\n
At work one evening<\/p>\n
a white shape beneath green foliage<\/p>\n
caught my eye<\/p>\n
across the street<\/p>\n
at the edge of the golf course<\/p>\n
I crossed over<\/p>\n
to investigate<\/p>\n
I pushed aside greenery<\/p>\n
to find a pile of quicklime<\/p>\n
with a deer skull sticking out of it<\/p>\n
no doubt someone’s scheme<\/p>\n
for subduing the stink of a carcass<\/p>\n
Why not encase the dead deer<\/p>\n
rather than remove it?<\/p>\n
I stood with my hands behind my back<\/p>\n
leaning in<\/p>\n
wondering at this sculpture<\/p>\n
white skull protruding<\/p>\n
from white hardened material<\/p>\n
and I recalled Michelangelo’s idea:<\/p>\n
I did not sculpt a deer<\/p>\n
rather I removed the stone that was not deer<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
2.<\/p>\n
As I approached work in my car<\/p>\n
a white shape against green foliage<\/p>\n
caught my eye<\/p>\n
I noticed the white cattle egret<\/p>\n
standing on the grassy shoulder<\/p>\n
across the street<\/p>\n
wings behind its back<\/p>\n
leaning in<\/p>\n
investigating a roadside cross<\/p>\n
that had been erected<\/p>\n
in memory of a young woman<\/p>\n
who’d been killed by a truck there<\/p>\n
There was much to examine:<\/p>\n
flowers and photos<\/p>\n
and poems and remembrances<\/p>\n
and trinkets<\/p>\n
The egret remained there<\/p>\n
focused<\/p>\n
in position<\/p>\n
as I drove past<\/p>\n
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