Deer in the Forest by Ikiah Mosely

          After a painting of the same name by Franz Marc

There are five of them huddled close
amidst a turbulent storm of red and yellow thread.
There is silent contemplation broken
only by the cracking of trees and snapping of branches,
the shriek of fleeing birds desperately seeking shelter.
The white yarn of the wind reaches down and tugs at them
trying to separate them.
But, they stay bound together,
wrapped in gold and brown silk.



Ikiah Mosely is a creative writing major at New England College. Her fiction and poetry have been published in The Henniker Review and in publications associated with A26 Boston, a program that publishes work of Boston area students. She plans to return to the Boston area after graduation.