traffic report
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Driving to the barn first thing in the morning, red brake lights and the cars slowing up ahead, flares in the fast lane. We all eased down to a stately second gear and looked left to see what had happened:
A police car.
A woman with her hands over her mouth, staring in distress at:
A deer, sphinx-like in front of the woman’s little hatchback and looking around, its ears erect, its lovely legs folded badly.
The deer was not going to be okay.
The morning light slanted through the haze, and we all sped up and drove away.
