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Mama Zen (she’s mysterious) first dropped a fawn by the big birch tree.</h2><p id="f7b1">Left it the longest while. Trembling, perched awkwardly on stick-like legs.</p><p id="efa8">Z started bringing the whole brood over. Pretty and definitive. What was ours was theirs, no takesie-backsies. Farewell, <a href="https://encoreazalea.com/">Encore Azaleas</a>! Mama Z plans her own reprise.</p><h2 id="4315">If you speak baby-talk to critters — encouraging, never discouraging — they’ll move right in.</h2><p id="67ad"><a href="https://brookerameynelson.medium.com/fall-back-move-forward-95822fabcf57">Moker</a> says our deer friends will wre

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ak havoc in our hood. But I think I need them here. Even though they wolf down more than weeds.</p><div id="069a" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/paws-to-reflect-dbb10b047281"> <div> <div> <h2>Paws to Reflect</h2> <div><h3>A Poem</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*[email protected])"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

MOTHER NATURE

Oh, Deer!

I love seeing life in triplicate

From right: Mama Zen, Jen, Wren (back left, the smallest) and Ben (front left). Author’s Archives.

We drew three-of-a-kind.

Our “triplets” snarf azaleas, but I just can’t run them off. Mom and her babes came around uninvited. Glad they did, though.

Mama Zen (she’s mysterious) first dropped a fawn by the big birch tree.

Left it the longest while. Trembling, perched awkwardly on stick-like legs.

Z started bringing the whole brood over. Pretty and definitive. What was ours was theirs, no takesie-backsies. Farewell, Encore Azaleas! Mama Z plans her own reprise.

If you speak baby-talk to critters — encouraging, never discouraging — they’ll move right in.

Moker says our deer friends will wreak havoc in our hood. But I think I need them here. Even though they wolf down more than weeds.

Wildlife
Family
Landscaping
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