Other Warriorpoets
Steve Toth - Mother Nature

MOTHER NATURE

The morning's stillness is snapped
The doe stops grazing
& facing the direction
the sound came from
snaps to attention
Ears up eyes piercing
as a coyote steps into the open
The doe snorts
a few times then charges
The Coyote turns on the speed
looking back almost longingly
for a moment
just before entering the woods
Only a mountain lion
or a black bear
would do anything
but clear out
when she's like this.

Something about a fawn
gives a doe
a special supply of fearlessness