snow deer

In Japanese poetry, they compare the snow, melting and giving way to the brown earth of spring, to the spots on a fawn.

I was imagining. . . somewhere there are snow deer. They are winter-white, like arctic foxes and snowshoe hares and ptarmigans.



They have their babies in those cold times, fawns who are completely white to camouflage in snowdrifts.



As the snow melts, the coloring of the fawns change too, speckled brown and white, like the ground around them.



In the summer months, like other dee...