The thick days have finally agreed to rain. All the trees are wet the eyes of all the new fat leaves are closed. There is no wind but I hear the fine breathing of the deer. In a doorway a small man carries letters in a paper bag, inside fat people smile in heavy coats condensations glisten in their fur.

![[rising from the waters,]](http://www.thesunmagazine.org/ext/resources/old_images/6633/023.webp?t=1714651198)


