Water Song Deer Sung

an absolute beauty pouring a cup of water on her body

In a study of body is a body of wonder and speculation about what a body needs and means to the spirit in the body. How do you approach a body of knowledge and the spirit of said body containing spirit and emotion? Carnal lust is self-expression. With judgment it is a burden of the soul entrapping the spirit into a endless dialogue with doubt and fears.

I just returned from a walk in a sliver of woods near my home. Littered upon the land were countless leaves and green low growing vegetation covering moist brown earth. A lot of tires jutted from the landscape sometimes creating a collaboration of art and spoil when years of sediment and floods sunk the majority of a tire here and there into the ground. Tires and trash, rusted metals, bike frames made the tapestry look jagged, worn and neglected. I couldn't help wondering how four-legged creatures fared. Broken glass was splayed out in a tragic form in one place unable to reflect sunlight because today is a rainy and cloudy winter day. The stream was narrow with old stories of former glory. Flanking the stream of brown dirty water houses peered down into the narrow swath of hardwood trees just as perplexed as I at the trash each owner had thrown down into the forest. Why? I don't know how to answer such a question if asked of any of the four-leggeds.

Rounding a bend in the stream's course I saw a white tail deer spring out of hiding gracefully with concern about her countenance leap away from me. She stopped to look at me. I shared my thoughts and concerns with her to which she turned and gracefully leaped away.

"In beauty all things find a way to live in the worst and the best of circumstances," she said from the quiet of her spirit to mine. - Gregory E. Woods, 1.15.14






naked Black woman bathing her Yoni in the sun