You carry things at a right angle Subtract thirty years Add salt, breadcrumbs; add powdered sugar I walked through the woods there, the fields running under the phone lines, dry but cold, staying inside the tree-line, inside the dream The field side of things felt like early winter in the 1970s Three deer, two waiting on sawhorses, were being butchered in the snow by a couple wearing orange snowsuits There was a child There were statues in the woods with me One had a hand covering his mouth I’d parked near the one lane bridge Hid my car keys up inside the right front wheel-well I used to go on these walks all the time
David Dodd Lee