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Coda.

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Some thought about a
shoe, set me to stringing

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the eye holes of a memory.

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My mother, the old dear, would
eschew such knowledge now

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for other than my ear.

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But when she was a
few months married,

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was in fact still
singing, she wore

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a pair of emu-feathered
slippers from the bed,

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and dangled lazily about
a little spangle house.

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I suppose she spent time
winding up her hair,

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it was then red, and
washed a few cups.

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The usual recess.

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I've seen a blouse she
wore in those days.

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Tucked to a formal
stiffness, sweetly white.

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How thin she was.

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The picture doesn't
catch the tones

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of skin, the essence of her
freshness, her light buoyancy.

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Now, when she goes
about with feathers,

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she wears them upon hat.

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It seems so odd to
me that once she

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owned a poodle who
loved her silly shoes

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and took them up
like bones to chew

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and ate the feathers
of long dead emus.

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Because in all the
time I lived with her,

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she wore the plainest shoes,
and all our pets were cats.

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