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The next poem is
called "Aunt Rose."

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"Aunt Rose."

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"In a soldier's uniform,
in wooden shoes,

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she danced at either
end of day, my Aunt.

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Her husband rescued a pregnant
woman from the burning house.

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He heard laughter, each
day's own little artillery.

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In that fire, he
burnt his genitals.

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My aunt Rose took other
people's children.

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She clicked her tongue as
they cried and August pulled

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curtains evening after evening.

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I saw her, chalk
between her fingers.

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She wrote lessons on an empty
blackboard, her hand moved,

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and the board remained empty.

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We lived in a city by the sea,
but there was another city

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at the bottom of the sea.

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And only local children
believed in its existence.

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She believed them.

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She hung her husband's picture
on a wall in her apartment.

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Each month on a different wall.

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I now see her with that picture,
hammer in her left hand,

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nail in her mouth.

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From her mouth, a
smell of wild garlic.

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She moves toward
me in her pajamas

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arguing with me
and with herself.

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The evenings are my evidence,
this evening in which she

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dips her hands up to
her elbows, the evening

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is asleep inside her shoulder.

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Her shoulder rounded by sleep."