Fence Wire

… garroting apple and oak, broken off, no longer keeping the wild estate; late spring, northern embroidery; lilies shaped like trumpets, chalices;the names are royal: Imperial Crimson, Empress of China; but deer eat the bulbs, turning from forage, leaping the humming string set on wire sticks beside the compost and garden lined with mothballs, urine, and lantern fires, the abandoned woods still fill in around the double-wides, as though a wound