THE HUNTER

      by Duane Locke


The deer is always in danger,
For the deer always
Looks like a naked woman
Who is happy in her nakedness.
The hunter, a traditional moralist, hates happiness,
Shoots
To cloth
The deer
In blood.

     

Comments?

talk about 'The Hunter'
(click here)


In Association with Amazon.com

Duane Locke, Doctor of Philosophy in Renaissance Literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Poet in Residence at University of Tampa for over twenty years, he has had over 2,000 of his own poems published in over 500 print magazines such as American Poetry Review....(more)

 

all work on -30- is copyrighted by the author or artist, and is used with their permission. ©'99,'00