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Sitting on the front porch, a deer downt he driveway looks up from grassing on the clumps of grassing growing up from the gravel driveway. Our eyes meet and its body tenses, furry muscles rippling, it watches me. occasionally it dips its head back down as if to graze again, but instead its head pops back up as if testing. We spend five minutes staring at each other before it decides to move on a few delicate steps off the driveway and then bounding over the azalea bush down the forested hill toward the river.
The pollen drifts off pines and oaks, floating down in eddies of breeze catching the sunlight.
spider webs float out like fishing line glittering silver in the sunlight.
the shadows of butterflies bounce across the gravel driveway as their owners flutter through the branches above the porch.
a pileated woodpecker lands on the tree in front of me its black and white striped head with its tuff of red mohack it hops about the trunk of hollowed, half rotted tree, using itts bill to chip off great flecks of bark as it pokes around for gubs and insects
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