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Abandoned I've been planning For your going, Packing your things, Putting up pears. I have seen the look on your face, Heard the wind in your sighs. I read the signs. I know them well. Looking at my face All smiles and sunny, Would you guess I've been left before. -Sharon Brown McConnell /<\ Q c7 Attic A woman dressed in denim jeans large sweat shirt her hair tied back with an orange ribbon pulls the cord climbs the steep steps into the attic there she sorts through stacks of newspapers lampshades Christmas decorations cracked dolls old hats with plumes fingering the eyelet edge of a Crazy Quilt until she becomes a slanted shadow in dust a solitary wanderer breathing stale air in this space where old things are packed away and forgotten to be remembered. -Betty McKnight 52 ...

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