Tara M Broeckel Ooten
“marc’s deer”
inspired by franz marc’s painting “deer in the forest”
1.
through the night
day night
chaos night
in a deconstructed wood of white green trees
a sparrow navigates the red yellow
blue yellow
purple of the sky.
2.
the deer stood surmising how to cross through the forest on a day
night
day such as this when the sky’s purple red
pink yellow
red could easily sweep him off nature’s canvas.
quickly clop hoof beats into the green dark green yellow dirt of the earth’s way home.
3.
a family crouches in a glade
the damp dark
green saves them from the touch of
the night’s red purples.
grasses house the deer in the
forests green as they drink its sweet pink red yellow
pink grasses for nourishment
nestling into each other until
the lost comes home.
4.
rounding his back
he flickers
his ears
in the green reds of the sky.
5.
the bird’s feathered white blues
flutter into the swirl sheltering
a voice on darkening wings