DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "Elk Skeleton" by Amy Fleury Originally read: April 16, 2013 More information about the Poet: Amy Fleury When I reread this poem, I didn't know if the pieces fit together.  And I think this is one of the strengths of the poem.  The three stanzas have a slightly different approach to each and different subject matter which make the leaps a little far off, but connecting. For example, the first stanza opens with the alliteration of D "Down the draw at dusk seven mule deer" and some B "browse the blanched grasses."  There's very hard sounds here as though the speaker is forcing the reader or the speaker herself to stop and look at these deer and look at them eat -- majestically.  I write majestically because I feel the sentiment is forces within the two lines, and then the philosophical third line of "Not all has been winter-killed this early April" which brings a certain seriousness, and passage of time ...