Roe-deer
In the dawn-dirty light, in the biggest snow of the year Two blue-dark deer stood in the road, alerted. They had happened into my dimension The moment I was arriving just there. They planted their two or three years of secret deerhood Clear on my snow-screen vision of the abnormal And hesitated in the all-way disintegration And stared at me. And for some lasting seconds I could think the deer were waiting for me To remember the password and sign That the curtain had blown aside for a moment And there where the trees were no longer trees, nor the road a road The deer had come for me. Then they ducked through the hedge, and upright they rode their legs Away downhill over a snow-lonely field Towards tree dark - finally Seeming to eddy and glide and fly away up Into the boil of big flakes. The snow took them and soon their nearby hoofprints as well Revising its dawn inspiration Back to the ordinary
Roe-deer - meaning Summary
A Vanishing Glimpse Beyond Ordinary Life
The poem presents a brief encounter with two roe deer in heavy snow as a break in ordinary perception. The speaker feels that the animals have entered a hidden reality and may be asking him to recognize an unknown connection. When they disappear, the falling snow erases both their tracks and the moment's apparent revelation, returning the landscape to normal.
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