Tag: biographies
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Helen Keller at Niagara Falls by Meryl Stratford
helen keller She could not see the avalanche cascade from foam-flecked marble rapids, being blind, but torrents of egrets and apple blossoms played whirlpools of nebulous beauty in her mind. She could not hear, tumultuous mystery, the thunderous plunge, a sea’s storm-breaking crests, crescendo of a choral symphony, only the silence when the music rests.…
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Summer Dresses by Jane Urquhart
urquhart summer Later flowered cups she drinks her tea from echo in her summer dresses she is an old woman contemplating ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡unlaced shoes memory all around her like the river of that vein in one thin hand against a powdered cheek behind a cedar door she feels compelled to organize the souvenir of wardrobe (her…
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Between Brothers by Jane Urquhart
urquhart brothers A fight starts in a moment travels all around the yard and ruins roses involves two or three dogs who scare the goldfish deeper in the pond a fight speaks of heat or play or boredom a fight lasts an instant or an afternoon and always finishes with the loser in the trough…
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Undertaker’s Bride by Jane Urquhart
urquhart undertaker Grandmother was an undertaker’s bride it couldn’t be helped the profession ran in her husband’s family she was twenty-one at the turn of the present century her name was ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡adeline just like the song grandmother kept an intricate account of death by water that was her job sometimes she described more than sixty…
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Grandmother Crosses by Jane Urquhart
urquhart grandmother Grandmother crosses the suspension bridge she is seven years old in the process of eliminating ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡errands she watches amazed as the loaf of bread ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡she has carried from the american side slips from her hands somersaults gently to the rapids below light ‡‡‡‡‡as an angel’s gold brick eighty years later the streetcars passing…