Deer Heart continued...

Deer Heart

by Teena Marie Fancey

(excerpt #2)

The keening sounds to summon us, and echoes through the trees
And shakes them with its sadness and moves them like a breeze
Inside the ring she changes skins and shows to us her youth
Sobbing with the knowledge that she sees the bitter truth...

                           ...to be continued

Deer Heart

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A forest clearing, a shape shifter, a fairy ring and a myth: 

Bean si/ Banshee

"Deer Heart"  

by Teena Marie Fancey

 (excerpt)

Gather, you gentle ones, where the boney birches stand.

Where moss and lichen soften steps you take across this land.

Gather, you gentle ones, you creatures of the wood.

Stay shy outside the fairy ring as you have learned you should.

..to be continued