Deer Dancing

She's doing it again,
her ritual road dancing routine
in the fading September dusk,
the month and hour for deer
to be dancing on open roads,
cloven hoof flying time,
everything set to let go
except for the three-beer driver
in a rusted Chevy pickup
rolling up her dancing road.
They meet at the end
of perfection, a flawless leap,
her body airborne and weightless,
everything pushed
to its limit at once.

Wil Hastings

Biography

Wil Hastings, who now lives in Northampton, is active in community readings and edits a local occasional anthology called “Church Hill Poets”. His poems have appeared in Yankee Magazine, Potpourri, The Berkshire Review, SLANT, The Lucid Stone, Poetry Motel, New England Watershed and local anthologies.

Wil also owns forest land in Worthington and is a member of the Massachusetts Woodlands Cooperative.