Under the weeping willow's tresses by Zebulon Huset

the doe's white tail tucked
under her camouflaged hind

three fawns curled into
slowly baking cookies
their panting pink tongues
tasting brook-cooled wind

overheated midges float
the zephyrs more than fly

beneath the khaki crab grass
earthworms sit in stasis

the waking world
waiting on sundown



Zebulon Huset is a teacher, writer and photographer living in San Diego. His writing has recently appeared in Meridian, The Southern Review, Fence, Rosebud, Atlanta Review & Texas Review among others. He publishes a writing prompt blog Notebooking Daily and edits the journal Coastal Shelf.