hunting
-
Teaching Wolves
Written 2.22.26 I look out on a dry country of hills, where between the gaps I see, a hundred miles away, the snowy caps of some tall, flat range. I wonder why the snow is kept…
-
On Wildlife Conservation
5/10/2025 I hunt with my friend, and when we discover scat or a pressed bed of tall grass, we will remark aloud “deer sign” to one another. Eventually, when we see a deer, we point at…
animal rights, conservation, deer, father, friendship, hiking, humanity, hunters, hunting, nature, parks, shame, son, stewardship, suicide, wildlife, writing -
Here for Turkey
5/4/2025 In the woods, I think of my love in the way I assume old warriors longed for comfort when they wrote songs about returning home to beer and women. The magic of these forests, and…
-
Mice in my Garage
There are mice in my garage. And I have not killed a mouse,but I have seen it done with traps and I have seen them crushed underfootI have also seen how cats kill them, and cats…
-
Damned to Hell the Man Who Lives in Fear
Damned to Hell the man who lives in fear, the heart of whose fear is the core of himself, and whose primacy reigns to lash out at the source of his fear, sources drawn from a…
