Meanwhile, the tower is famous because it leans,

deer bound in and out-- tails

flick ing white

in the-furthest-from-surrender kind of way.

Deer medicine surrounds : muggy :

quick in/quick out, daily

leaves crystalize. Some fall.

All summer the summer

was soaked, wore its hair plastered to its face--

so soaked roses, cukes drunk

on all the water, yellowed and endless

the months

:

the deer are still

bounding

in and out,

bags

of corn

are

being

cut 

open

by ourselves.

We don't aim

to kill them,

but the

others

do.

Every

morning

I watch the morning:

540 rise, stars lift,

sky—some beautiful

being, worth the linger

of our eyes.

The summer was soaked,

garden was soaked fruits,

which I ate, sometimes

on my knees, sometimes

cross-legg-ed, ankles

pressed in

to the earth.