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I learned a couple of
years ago with my family

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in the mountains,
in a house where

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no one had lived for a while,
so the deer had kind of

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taken over the property.

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And they would come right
up to the windows really,

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and I was working pretty
hard editing this manuscript.

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And it seemed like when
I would look up deep

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in thought, suddenly,
there was a being

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from another world looking
at me or not looking at me.

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And so when I came back to
Tucson, and a little bit

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when I was there, I
started to sort of explore

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that deer thing, and the symbol
that also was in the metaphors

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that it was bringing,
and this was

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the first of those deer
poems which have now

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become a pretty big project.

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So I've been having some fun
looking at topographic maps

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and deer migration
patterns, and they've

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taken me back to where
I grew up in Los Alamos

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where there were a pair of
albino deer living there

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when I was young, being
tracked, and many deer

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connections I seem to have.

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So I want to read this one that
made it into Blinking Ephemeral

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Valentine, and then we have
a way to erase all of this,

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and let Mary Jo set
the stage for you.

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So this one is called
"National Monument."

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Wish yourself inside
the ornamental deer.

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Veneer of and spots
floating in the reservoir.

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Water breaking the edges.

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In the time lapse
of drift forever,

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a lasso across your
shoulder, and in your pocket,

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a fly's wing on which
to sketch your SOS--

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a ribbed dog.

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Things you will need--

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night glasses, cerulean
stain, best gloves,

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any number of ladders.

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Stand up in a black
hollow, multiple sounds

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of a perfect ocean
under which you

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believe an incandescent
carousel circles.

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When you have finished,
hold your reflection

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up to the keyhole.

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Kits and toy soldiers in
the ragweed a crossing,

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says so the bullet sprayed sign.

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Shape of antlers or black
branches, wind making it

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disappear.

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Here the poem whistles
an elk to the shoreline.

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Whistle, whistle, and another,
another are cue of hold onto.

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