Moe, Rusty C.

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ManuscriptsRolandI.Holo RustyItwas nice to hear fromyou that you stile remerberdRoland I wish you had saidall that to him before he wentI am not a speller so hopeyou can make it all out.Roland had asked me to puthis ashes in the gulieacass the road but that landhas change hands & they toldus to stay out so I put themander the Grap Vine he plantdthe Grap Vine. Yes Rusty youcan com vist with him if youlick. what was Rolands lifebefor he did not good he wasdaf he count stan up he hadto be lifed but the day he didhe said to me I am goingto get well & I am cominghome he said he found outthat his family met more tohim then all of Clafomaso Gail bourt all hisbelongs home with him hisfrind wont me to put him in sompark out thier but he wantedto com home. his memorialservice was fine the Ravendid a grat job. to badyou count be thier we hada puitcer of him the box withthe ashes & one lille flowerhes frind from Midland bourtfor him. so every thank isall OK I miss him1Autumn 1992II.Your mother's face at the open door-your face: a raw planewhitened with the salt of hope and sorrow.The rose you planted back of the housewhen you were 15, and the hibiscus.Yard unmown, weedy, strewnwith failed cars and spare machine parts.We walk like widows,leaning left to one unseen.Sitting beside the vine you set,breaking a twig apart in long fingers;your name ripening in the grapes above,bugs at rest on rotting leaves,a grocery receipt caught among the lily stems.III.Were you yawning in the kitchen,reaching for milk,when the blind germ wokein your blood's hoop?Dreaming of floods in the south of France,or pulling burrs from a long-earred cat?And when the moment of passingpassed,and you came to,resolved anew,was this land's songspill-all burnished murmur and shadows a'peace-the wooing emanence you first knew?Did you lie fresh-cut on a clean clothawaiting the vase,or move like a hound abandoned to the city?IV.Your locus is now a genesiswhere you thrive in cowled silence,no longer friend - but ancestor.Rusty C. Moe2

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