The 2River View | 22.1 (Fall 2017) |
Phillip Sterling
The deer know what it means to be a woodchuck or a man. appears to them in orderly rows from inattentive headlights. of creatures that adore them. “Observe Wildlife at a Distance”
The lake doesn’t think of itself as wild, I swerve to miss on the narrows of Glen Lake, my car might cause than about the ranger moments later going in the other direction. and tourism, and so appropriate here, as if from places where coyotes are a nuisance, In my rearview, I watch the young pup leave and the lake’s disinclination—two of a kind— Phillip Sterling has served as Artist-in-Residence for Isle Royale National Park and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. He is the author of And Then Snow and Mutual Shores, and four chapbook-length series of poems. P&W Profile
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