![A bullet
whistled past my ear
not in war but hunting deer
A mix of cursing some damn fool
and knowing one you hear can't hit you
Maybe that is why we love lightning so](https://i0.wp.com/www.neilmeili.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/The-Romance-of-the-Near-Miss.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
The Romance of the Near Miss
![A bullet
whistled past my ear
not in war but hunting deer
A mix of cursing some damn fool
and knowing one you hear can't hit you
Maybe that is why we love lightning so](https://i0.wp.com/www.neilmeili.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/The-Romance-of-the-Near-Miss.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
In memory of the students and teachers killed in Uvalde, Texas May 24, 2022.
THE TURKEY SHOOT
Small town Saskatchewan
raising money for the curling rink
Targets fifty feet away
and old bent-sight 22’s to shoot
The trick to bringing a turkey home
was not how well at the bullseye shot
but how fast you learned that life
is sometimes three inches down
and two to the left of where you aim
November 22, 2017