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Hunting in the Northeast Kingdom

7/3/2015

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In November of 2013 I took a new huntress on her first hunt.  A freak snowstorm swept into Vermont that weekend, and temperatures plummeted into the single digits as we slept in our little dome tent.  The next day we waded through the snow carrying my .30-.30 rifle, entranced by the fresh tracks that crisscrossed the 80 acre parcel of forest in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.  We didn't see any deer that weekend, but I harvested a poem from the experience of watching this woman hunt for the first time:




Hunting in the Northeast Kingdom
 
She wears the white of fresh snow around her neck
The black of midnight next to her skin
Hart's blood stains her sweater scarlet

Dark eyes sharply scan the snow
Her heart is a .30-.30
Bullets of desire that always hit their mark

She follows the tracks down the ravine
Strong and certain 
She claims what is already hers

Twilight falls, the Golden Hour
Blood and hair stain the snow
She feasts upon the bones of winter


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    Murphy

    Murphy has been writing about connection to nature since they were a teenager.  Their work has been published in Communities Magazine and Stepping Into Ourselves: An Anthology on Priestesses.  Murphy is a huntress, wilderness guide, Tiny House dweller, and the founder of Mountainsong Expeditions.

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