A night ago, before going to bed, something told me to look outside into the darkness, and so I did. I turned off my computer monitor and gazed through the nearby windowpane. You can imagine my surprise when in the snow I saw a large, unmoving object. At first I thought it was a neighbor’s old Christmas tree being thrown out that had somehow blown into my yard.

Then I realized it was a large deer, asleep but awake, listening to the woods. It was somehow simple but also extraordinary. I immediately thought of Amy Stein’s Domesticated series, though my photograph is nowhere near as beautiful as are hers!

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