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You gave my ancestors nourishment, but they are dead now and I am immortal, today.
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The photograph has no date,but these are my long-ago kin,ancestors just before the boat,six stone-faced on the English shore,sepia on cardstock under glassstill clear in severe, dark clothesexcept one who has been markedout, maybe with black wax,which runs to the bottom…
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What do they want, our never smiling, cinch-waisted ancestors, peeking around the steel corners of oceanliners with their burdens and bulging burlaps?
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