Elizabeth Reninger

Elizabeth Reninger (1963 - ) was an undergraduate at Northwestern University. While earning degrees in mathematics and women’s studies in a Ph.D. program in sociology/philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison - she discovered poetry, dance improvisation and yoga asana. During a year-long “time-out” from her formal academic studies, she attended a three-week meditation retreat with the Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. She has written several volumes of poetry.

Deer

their steps are liquid

through air, delicate

as Spring's first flowers

their shy gaze darts

here and there, a quick

knowing deeper

than sight

in a loose

weave they travel, giving space

to trees and sky

like you the valley

grows gentle around them

— Elizabeth Reninger