pumping water from my brother’s pool later

said it jumped over his house and the street

roaring down the backside of the homes

opposite. The deer, fleeing this fire-

storm had only to run down the

street to save herself. Unable

to read a map she stayed in

front of the fire, pinning

herself in a steel fence

where the flames

cooked her.

This was no natural

disaster as nature didn’t

kill her. Men did, men who

started the fire and built the fence.