Pine Tree Tops

by Gary Snyder

In the blue night 

frost haze, the sky glows 

with the moon 

pine tree tops 

bend snow-blue, fade 

into sky, frost, starlight. 

The creak of boots. Rabbit tracks, deer tracks, 

what do we know.

 Deer Hunting 2021

Deer #1

Deer #2

Didn't shoot these; left them, hoping they'd walk south to the kid.

Deer #3

Deer #4