Where they were

White-tailed deer

“i see nothing over there

but a hollow in the long grass

like the places where deer have been lying,

and the only thing I hear

is shallow water maklng excuses to stone.’’

— From “Where the Deer Were,’’ by Kate Barnes (1932-2013). A Massachusetts native, she lived in the latter part of her life in Appleton, Maine. She served as Maine’s poet laureate.

Appleton is in red.