For Anthea Corinne Snyder Lowry, 1932 to 2002.
My sister.
"She was on the Marin County Grand Jury,
heading to a meeting south of Petaluma on the 101.
The pickup ahead of her lost a grassmower off the back.
She pulled onto the shoulder and walked right out
into the lane to take it off.
That had always been her way.
Struck by a speedy car, an instant death.
White egrets standing there, always standing there,
there at the crossing on the Petaluma River."