Mari Renwick, Red Tooth/Green, 2019 (Artist Website, Instagram)
Encaustic on wood panels with pigment stick
12 x 12”
in the edge of my parents’ backyard
a deer feeder spins out corn
down silver-fluted trays that hovers
in the light like a hurricane
seen on a satellite map red-green
then green-red my mother
watches the deer each morning
when the feeder goes off at seven
she stands at the window alone
she says she can’t believe my father
would kill such a peaceful creature
I don’t say I can