Deer are barking
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I love the image of the Biblical snake. (K)
Something I knew some snakes can do, but I’d never seen it before. Spectacular and wild.
Such lovely images of the hours between dusk and morning–the oriole fluting the elegy. I love the biblical snake, too, but I want to hear a bunch of barking deer!
Thank you! I don’t know what the problem with the deer was, but they were barking from two different bits of woodland.
The snake was incredible. I read they can climb trees but I’ve never seen one do it before. I climbed the tree trunk, slid along a branch and did what the squirrels so, going from tree to tree and across the top of the hedge.
I just read something yesterday about “flying” snakes. Is that what it looked like? It sounds incredible. Though I’m not sure I’d want to be too close. . .
It slithered up the trunk and out onto a high branch, then the front part reached out to a branch of the next tree and the rest followed. It wasn’t flying, more like bridging, a flying buttress 🙂 I was imagining us in the hedge chopping the brambles out and what would happen if one dropped on our heads…
I’m picturing “The Scream.” 😀
You probably wouldn’t be far wrong 🙂
Hey, you got the whole story, all important history inside this small poem. 😉 Beautiful. Michael
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:-)) You too, Jane! Wonderful thoughts, for bringing the brain to jump to higher spheres.
When the cat and I had a more-or-less fenced-in yard, I let her out and it was her pleasure to present me with half-animals. She looked so satisfied.
I’ve never heard a deer’s vocal sound. Whenever I’ve encountered a deer, we stare at each other then go one direction and another. I have heard a fox’s cry but only in a certain British mystery series I like to watch on television.
The Biblical climbing of the snake sounds phenomenal. I’ve only seen snakes on the ground or on the water. And I was introduced to a snake once by a naturalist. I found the snake remarkable to touch.
Well, sorry to go on. Your work is certainly evocative.
Thank you. All this nature is new to me. I never paid much attention to it when I lived in the countryside as a child. Roe deer bark rather like dogs, but on a single note. It’s an alarm call but these were at it for ages, back and forth.
The snake was incredible, and also a bit unsettling as we’re often in the hedges trying to free up some of the trees from the smothering brambles.
I wish cats wouldn’t do that. The half-rodents Trixie has left just beyond the porch are still there. The whole corpses have all been cleaned up so I suppose they didn’t go to waste, but I really hate it when she kills babies and just dumps them.