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and are cast off again to our provincial land
where death
is
commonplace. And sick humankind
beckons and calls us to its invalid neighbor.
WIDOW
The doubting widow cheats
Her widow weeds. Betrayals
From the tubular dark
Sweeten the larkspur feet
jANE MAYHALL
That spike her broken marble day.
The neighbors' children skip
In furbelows she dreams
As wreaths. The young at play
Cripple the young she seems
On her memorial day.
Geraniums by the spoonful
Redecorate the guile
Penelope unlips.
The sunlit icicle drips
On the dated Doric rubble.
GEORGE ANTHONY
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