Participation Mystique: Bella and the Fawn

Chance blessed me one autumn morn
to witness an unlikely encounter —
portal to an enchanted world surrounding.

Glancing up, I was struck to behold a young buck
planted front and center below my window,
his attention fixed on something nearby.

Deft as a Ninja, I stepped out to peer over the deck.
There was Bella, sitting fully aware on open ground,
her feline back to the buck.

He stomped the ground with his hoof.
Bella slowly turned her head
to hold him at bay with a backwards gaze.

Again his hoof pounded the ground.
Bella held hers.

The buck so yearned to nuzzle this alien being.
Still Bella’s cold stare held him in place.

Then with frustrated snort and parting stomp
the buck leapt up and away, with Bella
running behind in curious pursuit.

Ann West, 11.6.17