Amitava Kumar at his Substack:
There are always deer in my backyard and I try to draw them. In recent days when making those drawings, I have often thought of a poem I read recently by Mikko Harvey.
I love the turn midway through the poem, the deer is no longer the dumb animal but the suave and sophisticated analyst. There are other layers. The man or the “you” can’t make his mouth form the words—and that is the type of issue he should spend his time exploring. A profound, mischievous clue that the poet has dropped in the middle of the beautiful mystery that is this poem.
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