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Second Burial

                                    Carol Peters


I hoe vees.
I seed kale.
I miss her fingerbones.

She thumbed holes,
out-of-kilter lines,
made harlequin maps.

No remains—
tufts, nails or teeth—
all ebbed to meal.

I loiter at the fruiting rows.
I skirt abandoned beds.


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