“Some hunters dumped a corpse out on your land,”
\nshe says, “I tried to catch them, but they slipped past me.”
\nWe smelled it, of course, while we walked to shake
\nthe last persimmons from the naked, wild trees.<\/p>\n
In the cold, the smell was mild, even
\ncomplimentary, to those sweet, sticky
\nbrown fruit, whose pulp stained our hands and jeans red,
\nwhere we squeezed it out, wiped it, eating.<\/p>\n
Later, I saw its rib cage, bone white, resting
\nin a copse of wood. Insects had stripped it
\nmostly, but had then been arrested by
\nthe cold of winter. Its limbs were askew.<\/p>\n
One foot still had skin and fur. The hoof black.
\nIn it, I saw the living thing, the deer,
\nsomehow whole, paradoxically fixed
\nto this discarded pile of rotting bone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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