By Bill Castanier on April 8, 2010
FABLE
Image by ambergris on Flickr
By the side of the road
a tiny fawn
the stillness of death
unlike any other.
A baby’s white spots,
camouflage for the woods
useless here.
The Creator did his best
knowing nothing of cars
but everything
about my grief.
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Bill Castanier has been an award-wining weekly newspaper editor, advertising and public relations executive in his 40 year career. In addition, he has been an executive with a newspaper trade association and founded Michigan’s first technology association, I-TE@M. He writes a weekly newspaper feature on Michigan authors and is on the Board of the Kerrytown BookFest and the Michigan Notable Book Awards. He has the only daily blog on Michigan literature (Mittenlit) and founded Spartanpodcast.com.
enjoyed the poem