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Barbara Robidoux

                 

                 Last of Her Kind

For Eunice Baumann Nelson
Indian Island, Old Town, Maine
June 2000

                 Last of her kind
                 wild orchid blooming
                 in winter.
                 
                 Raven hair gone white
                 memory flown away
                 the loon cries on the river.

                 We laugh at ourselves
                 eating fresh strawberry pie
                 with plastic forks.

                 Chain smoking
                 "Indins don't die of lung cancer"
                 tobacco is sacred.

                 "Tell me when she leaves"
                 I make her daughter promise
                 and I will sing her home.

Copyright © 2000 Barbara Robidoux.

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