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frHE B'IHE IN AMJIURST
"Footlights cannot improve the grave,only immortality."
- Emily Dickinson
Neighbors refused /\/\-~!I
to refine their taste ~
fearful of the sparks,
\
pa:Ld homage to
white ash, po11tely \
poking, stirring, praying
the fire was out
or cold enough
to bUrn, then freeze
in knotted lines--
thin, pale--
white as whale bones.
- Nancy K. Barry
