Ron Riekki
At the Guard Shack
It's midnight and a deer's in the middle of the road,
a young deer, really young, where it's sort of wobbly when it walks
and headlights appear
behind me
and a car comes,
someone leaving work for the night
and he heads for the deer
and doesn't slow down
and I stand up
and the car speeds up
and the deer tries to run
and it gets to the side of the road just in time
and the guy disappears,
his headlights fading
and soon he'll be home.
And I can smell the nearby fires.
Bio
Ron Riekki's latest books are Niiji (Cyberwit/Taj Mahal Review, co-written with Sally Brunk) and I Have Been Warned Not to Write about This (Grandma Moses Press).).