Against the Rut: Poetry on Animals and Nature

by Amelia Hickman

From where I was just within the trees where came softly a fragile breeze, saw I antlers small and soft revealed from behind so high of trees, a caribou, youngling I knew as it did share the stance I stood at, and I knew it saw me, yet not a bit at all for me did it flinch, neither did give a care or sign of dare to attack, carrying on our ways, with it feasting on the ferns, and stepping onwards and away, each creature carrying on with day.

73 pages, Paperback

Published May 26, 2020