Cynthia Dunlap Gentile
                   III. The Dream   

I dreamt of her again last night:  

       She sat in sunlight, her back to me,  
       reading aloud to my father who stood  
       raking leaves, laughing with pleasure  
       as he listened.    Oh, mother, 
       turn around! Let me see your face  
       once more as it was, as you were ...  

Turn around!  
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