pair deer alike as clones stop at ...

pair deer alike as clones stop
at the breast-wall the steep stair

to the four-room Carnegie library
behind them as granting they'd come

down benumbed by the agency of a former
life in parts The day that had changed

with them is downhill,
its color beaten to the undersides

of vapors the sun low & thwarted
as the animals might be by the agency of outwaiting

our stopped human traffic
that also waits to papal court them

cros (ironically) to the clos realty
office: a village has little turnover

in housing, no industry & not many plans.
I make theocracies in my car, complain

the deer are not Ovid's