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And my little sonnet is called
Reverence For The Mother

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and for The Dead.

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Oh, that's not the way.

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I think this is the right word.

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I'll soon find out.

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Reverence for the
mother and for the dead.

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Above the fence flowers
like a bloody thumb,

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a hummingbird was
throbbing, throbbing.

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Some bluebells took motion
now from the beaten wings

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and hardly observable
obscure quivering.

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And there was the mother.

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So still her very
clothing seemed

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to be settling into
stone, and nothing

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to animate her face, nothing to
read their whole plastic rose.

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Oh, ecstasy.

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Oh, tall cedar.

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And she would be
kneeling there forever,

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where noon fixed her with
its bright Medusa glare,

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or in the boy's
memory she would.

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And then a young Black snake
startled from its sunning

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slid down from the slab
and through the thick grass

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and hid somewhere among
the purpling wild verbena.

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