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JILL & SYLVIA
(Heptonstall Churchyard — August 24th 1999)
A wind too chill
for this late August evening
blowing
on overgrown graves
weed-filled — neglected
except for just a few
your own amongst them.

For Jill — for Sylvia
a few choice flowers,
the earth kept clear
with dates inscribed
lifespans identical
just thirty-one brief years;
the one — the famous one
left this enactment
of her own volition,
the other
fighting her dying to the end.

Wind
bends the sycamores
and tosses fireweed widowed of its flowers;
it blows the fluffy seeds
— to other fields
— to other worlds.
IAN M. EMBERSON
from
Aabye issue C

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