{"id":11331,"date":"2012-11-03T15:26:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T19:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/midwifery-blog\/2012\/11\/the-yearling.html"},"modified":"2017-11-08T11:53:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T16:53:19","slug":"the-yearling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/midwifery-blog\/2012\/11\/the-yearling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yearling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Yearling<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Driving home <\/div>\n<div>Late<\/div>\n<div>Just hours before dawn<\/div>\n<div>Driving slowly in this urban neighborhood<\/div>\n<div>Stop sign greeted with a lazy roll<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Now, just half a block from home<\/div>\n<div>Recognition of a presence<\/div>\n<div>First sensing then seeing a deer<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Graceful yearling strolling in front of my headlights <\/div>\n<div>She stopped<\/div>\n<div>Turned<\/div>\n<div>Looked at me<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Hopping onto a neighbor&#8217;s lawn<\/div>\n<div>She stopped<\/div>\n<div>Turned<\/div>\n<div>Looked at me<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Then, walking slowly along the house<\/div>\n<div>She stopped<\/div>\n<div>Turned <\/div>\n<div>Looked at me<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>And then she was gone<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>~K. 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