Here’s how a Bucksport woman bagged an eight-point buck
By Patricia Ranzoni
Patricia Ranzoni.
IN A WHITE-TAIL FLASH
The first buck I took,
8 point, 200-some pounds live, as they say,
collided with my windshield on that flat
where the back ridge road cuts through their run.
The men tracked him lest he suffer more, and I,
I hunted everywhere ’til locating him, carved,
the size of my finger, at Ingrid’s Shop
across the river. Bowed, I painted the year
on his perfect flank, vowing to honor.
December following December,
he leaps from his tissue up! up!
to reign again
in evergreen.
—Ranzoni was Bucksport’s poet laureate from 2014 to 2025.
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