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My mother, in the hallway, up early from a dream,
asking, “Am I supposed to go home today?”

And then the next night, calling out, “Are you there?”
followed by my dead father’s name.

(first publication)


Recently Acquired:
Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Introduction by Dr. C. Bruce Fergusson (1951)
Nimbus Publishing
Halifax, Nova Scotia (no year given)