by Douglas Colin Muecke (1919 - 2015)

Epitaph
Language: English 
Across The Gap her ashes drift;
memories slide and blur.
Long ago I should have set
myself to the hard work of words

only to this end, that I
might show the world, for the world's good,
what with grace was once achieved
in the way of womanhood.

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