Catherine Arra

Deer Love Catherine Arra

Poetry. DEER LOVE is a collection of twenty poems about the spiritual bond and relationship forged between a woman and a female deer whom the poet named Forest. The poems celebrate their special love and illustrate the kind of growth and transformation to be found in the human-animal connection. Arra's sensitive and beautifully crafted poems foster an awareness of the silent, sentient, soulful animals with which we coexist and how often they are at our mercy to survive. Her graceful way with language mirrors the grace of Forest and encourages us to reconnect with the natural world, instinct, and ourselves as an integral part of that whole--to be good stewards of the earth and all its creatures.