This deer is actually eating apples in the yard across the street from my home. I though that this buck has a very nice rack of horns. He obviously is storing up fat for the harsh Minnesota winter to come. This is a suburban area of St. Paul, so hunting is not an issue here for this fellow, but being late September, it is hunting season, so he is very fortunate. I see deer here eating apples every year in the fall. Often several of them.

This poem is a Double Refrain Kyrielle.
A Kyrielle Poem carries a repeated line through each stanza, usually the last line of each. The Double Refrain Kyrielle carries two, with the repeating line reversed in the last stanza. These repeated lines I have designated here as B1 and B2. It is written in iambic tetrameter, for as many stanzas as the author desires. The rhyme scheme is then:

a,B1,a,B2 -- c,B1,c,B2 -- d,B1,d,B2 -- e,B2,e,B1.
The difficulty here is to make the double repeat transitions well enough so as not to become overbearing.

This photograph was taken by the author himself on September 20, 2015.

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