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Like a wounded animal
she remained stuck in her hurts,
nursing them like a doe
who, licking a sore, makes it worse.
The doe drinks deep from the pool
extending herself in the luminous reflection,
one long neck joined, the legs, too,
the pink sunset fragmented in the watery eye.
Anne Whitehouse, poet, fiction writer, journalist, and critic is the author of poetry collections entitled The Surveyor's Hand, Blessings and Curses, and Bear in Mind; One Sunday Morning is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Her novel Fall Love is available as a free e-book from Smashwords and Feedbooks, and is its own app on the iTunes store. Her second novel, Rosalind's Ring, set in her native Birmingham, was a finalist in the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards and is seeking a publisher. Formerly a teacher and college professor, Anne has worked in the not-for-profit world for over twenty years. Please visit her website, www.annewhitehouse.com, for links to her published works, interviews, and bibliographies. Her e-mail address: Anne Whitehouse