What deer see by Elizabeth Cranford Garcia

the denim legs of a novice hunter

the cloudless sky, godlike, almost a future

green, in thickets, 

the air foggy with green

the tremors of leaves in the air,

or back door snapping shut like a twig

at night, your car a bright blur

until it snaps into focus

and what she was seeing

with that extra layer of eye

shining back at you: more light,

a peephole into that other world, 

that daughter universe

where the fractals of all your possible selves

branch out forever, and she stops to wonder

which one you will choose

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Elizabeth Cranford Garcia is the current Poetry Editor for Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, and her first chapbook, Stunt Double, was published in 2015 through Finishing Line Press. Her three small children compete with her writing for attention, and usually win. Visit elizabethcgarcia.wordpress.com to see more of her work.