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Janet Lembke


 All
                done       Summer ends
      You are       acquainted
       with red clay       and maple roots
  And I who meant       to praise your life
         with filial salt       know shocking joy
                    Your pain and much       of mine are ash  Let                    
        rotting leaves and       drunken rains lament
             for I bereft       of grief cannot    
        Death shall       absolve me of    
such emptiness       It forgives      
no one and       every-      
   one
 
 
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