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Risk-Taker

By Richard L. Provencher

Sun, 25 Nov 2018
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Slinking through the grass

I crept close enough to observe

a doe and a young one

resting in the sun by a pond

its glimmer backed by

a forest of fir--

with shadows full of mystery

 

 

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